Census data as ready-to-use GIS layers.

Pull American Community Survey, Decennial Census, population estimates, LEHD jobs and migration flows straight into Shapefile, File Geodatabase, KML or CSV, with boundaries attached. Analyze them in the browser. Print them to a map layout. No R, no Python, no API wrangling.

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A printed Census Studio map of median household income by census tract around San Antonio, with legend, scale bar and north arrow
Median household income by tract, San Antonio. Letter-landscape layout printed from Census Studio.

See it in 72 seconds

A download becoming a map, the analysis tools, print layouts and the demographic profile, with the real numbers behind the catalogue.

1

Download

Pick a year, a geography and the variables you need. Census Studio fetches the estimates, the margins of error and the TIGER boundaries and hands you one clean layer.

2

Analyze

Join ACS data to your own polygons, run Getis-Ord hot spot analysis, compare two time periods with boundary crosswalks, aggregate to any target, normalize with proper MOE propagation, filter by reliability.

3

Deliver

Every result maps in the browser with ColorBrewer ramps and natural-breaks classes, tilts into 3D with one click, charts as ranked bars, distributions, scatter plots or category breakdowns with PNG export, downloads in six GIS formats, and prints to PDF in six layout templates with legend, scale bar and source line.

Thirteen tools, the same ones in the ArcGIS Pro toolbox

Census Studio for the web runs the same tested workflows as the Census Studio ArcGIS Pro toolbox, without needing ArcGIS.

Census downloads

  • ACS estimates 5-year and 1-year, 2015 onward, any geography from state to block group
  • Decennial Census 2010 and 2020 population, race, housing
  • Population estimates Annual county and state estimates by component
  • Migration flows County-to-county inflows and outflows
  • LEHD jobs and commute flows Workplace and residence job counts, home-to-work flows

Analysis

  • Compare time periods Change between ACS vintages with tract crosswalks
  • Join ACS data to features Enrich your own polygons by GEOID or location
  • Hot spot analysis Getis-Ord Gi* with margin-of-error adjustment
  • Aggregate data Sum, mean or share from one geography to another
  • Demographic profile report Study area versus county, state and nation

Data transformation

  • Normalize data Percentages, rates per 1k/10k/100k, ratios, with Census Bureau MOE formulas
  • MOE reliability filter Coefficient of variation, High/Medium/Low classes, flag or remove

Output formats

ShapefileFile GeodatabaseKMLCSVGeoPackageGeoJSONPDF map layouts

What comes out

Real results from the tools, as they appear in the browser. Click any one to see it full size.

Idaho counties extruded in 3D by percent population change 2018 to 2023, diverging red-blue classes
Compare Time Periods, in 3D Population change 2018 to 2023, Idaho counties, boundary crosswalk handled. Every map tilts into 3D with one checkbox: colour is the class, height is the value.
 Ranked bar chart of percent population change by county
Charts Every map result also charts: ranked bars, distributions, scatter plots, category breakdowns, exported as PNG.
 Hot spot map of median household income by tract in Ada County, Idaho
Hot Spot Analysis Getis-Ord Gi* on median household income, Ada County tracts, with margin-of-error adjustment and reliability flags.
 A 1.5 km hex grid over Ada County, Idaho coloured by block-group median household income in five classes
Join ACS Data to Features A planning grid over Ada County enriched with block-group median income, population-weighted. Works the same for parcels, districts or sales territories.
 Demographic profile table comparing a study area with its county, state and the nation
Demographic Profile Report A study area against its county, state and the nation: population, income, education, poverty, tenure.
 Printed letter-landscape map layout with legend, scale bar, north arrow and source line
Print layouts Six PDF templates with legend, scale bar, north arrow and source line; the map classes and colours carry through.

Simple credits, no seats to count

A credit is one run of a tool. Downloads and most analyses cost 1 credit for a state or any counties within it, down to tract level. The two heaviest tools cost 2, quick transforms cost half, and a printed map layout costs 1. Multi-state and nationwide pulls cost more (2 to 5 states x2, 6 to 20 x3, nationwide x5), as do block groups (x2) and blocks (x3). The form always shows the exact cost before you run, and failed runs are refunded.

New accounts start with 15 free credits so you can see real results before paying anything. Packs of 25, 100 or 300 credits from $39, and they never expire. Monthly plans from $39 include a credit allowance and renew automatically; cancel any time.

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