U.S. Census

• Data Sources
• Data by subject
• Software Tools
• Helpful resources
• Guide for working with US Census data and mapping it in a Geographic Information System (MS Word)
• Census Introduction slides
• American Factfinder keyword search: Discover if a term was used in a Decennial Census, American Community Survey, Economic Census, or Supplementary Survey and get a link directly to the table of information.
• US Census Bureau Newsroom - Find information on news releases, tipsheets, videos and photos, as well as links to the latest data on racial and ethnic populations in the United States.
• Information about the upcoming 2010 census
• Census information: Data and resources, was created by the University of Virginia Library for those not familiar with census data. Information is provided for the 2000 census products, places to get quick answers, resources for getting data for analysis, and historical information.
• Cure for the Common Codes - This site is intended to serve as a kind of geographic codebook showing the standard codes and the names asssociated with them.
• Census Atlas of the United States
• Mass Benchmarks News and Data Releases - Massachusetts State Data Center

The MIT Libraries hold print copies of census data dating to the first census, in 1790. Rotch Library houses the Census of Population and Housing. Dewey Library houses the Economic Census. Check Barton, the libraries online catalog, for availability and location of items. Most of the archival census information is held at the Library Storage Annex (LSA). If you would like to request materials stored in the LSA, please fill out a Library Storage Annex Request.