Census Data
For the most authoritative results straight from the source, use American Factfinder.
American Factfinder will give you both Decennial Census and American Community survey data in one place.
Other Census Tools
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Census ReporterCensus Reporter is a Knight News Challenge-funded project to make it easier for visualize data using information from the U.S. Census Bureau. Place profiles and comparison pages provide a friendly interface for navigating data, including visualizations (with links to data) for a more useful first look.
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Social ExplorerProvides selected historical data from the U.S. Decennial Census going back to 1790, as well as current data from the Census and the American Community Survey, and some religion data. There is a free version of this tool that will give you limited features.
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Community CommonsThis tool allows you to build a map delineating the most vulnerable populations in a given community based on a number of criteria, including poverty, lack of health care, lack of nutrition, etc. You have to provide a name and email and register to use the tool.
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Social Vulnerability IndexSocial Vulnerability Index uses U.S. census variables at tract level to help local officials identify communities that may need support in preparing for hazards or recovering from disaster.
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National Public Health Environmental Tracking NetworkThe National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) brings together health data and environment data from national, state, and city sources and provides supporting information to make the data easier to understand. The Tracking Network has data and information on environments and hazards, health effects, and population health.
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Response Outreach Area MapperApplication developed to make it easier to identify hard-to-survey areas and to provide a socioeconomic and demographic characteristic profile of these areas using American Community Survey (ACS) estimates.
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datausa.ioTool developed by Deloitte, Datawheel, and MIT Media Lab "to understand and visualize the critical issues facing the United States in areas like jobs, skills and education across industry and geography."
