Census Profiles

Neighborhood Nexus' partner - Emory University's Office of University-Community Partnerships (OUCP) - has created two unique sets of products from the U.S. Census Bureau. The first product set is county and Superdistrict profiles of a cross-section of 2010 Census data. The 2010 Census profiles allow you to compare counties and Superdistricts to the region as a whole across a number of variables, including race, age and some basic housing characteristics. Here is a technical discussion of how the 2010 Census profiles were created.

The second set of products is county and Superdistrict profiles from the American Community Survey (ACS), 2005-2009. The ACS is a survey - 250,000 different households across the U.S. are surveyed each month about a host of topics such as income, educational attainment, place of birth, poverty status, migration status, and a lot more.

While these data are richer than what is found in the 2010 Census release, they are a sample, so you have to be careful in making inferences from the data because the margins of error, particularly at small areas, can be quite large. Here is a technical discussion of how the ACS profiles were made. What makes the ACS profiles unique is that they recalculate the margins-of-error for the Superdistrict geography, which in some cases show you how unreliable the data can be. (Conversely, sometimes they are quite reliable.)

County Profiles can be found in the table below:

The Superdistrict profiles can be found in the map tool below. It allows you to zoom into the area you are interested in, click that Superdistrict boundary, and then download a PDF "package" of both profiles. Also see the instruction window in the mapping tool.