The U.S. Census Bureau is scheduled to embargo new 2019-2023 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates beginning on Dec. 10, at 10 a.m. EST, which are set to be publicly released on Dec. 12.

The ACS provides a wide range of statistics about the nation’s people and housing such as language spoken at home, education, commuting, employment, mortgage status and rent, income, poverty and health insurance coverage. It is the only source of local estimates for most of the 40-plus topics it covers.

The statistics will be available to embargo subscribers beginning Dec. 10, at 10 a.m. EST for a variety of geographic areas. This includes all states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, congressional and state legislative districts, metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas, counties, places, and other geographies down to census tracts and block groups.

Embargo subscribers will have access to these statistics from Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 10 a.m. EST to Dec. 12, at 12:01 a.m. EST. Wire and distribution services are prohibited from distributing embargoed news stories and data files before the embargo period ends. For more information, view the Census Bureau’s embargo policy. The news release and 5-year data products on data.census.gov, the API and summary files will be publicly available Thursday, Dec. 12, by 12:01 a.m. EST. The narrative profiles, QuickFacts, and My Tribal Area will be made publicly available by 10 a.m. EST, Dec. 12.

To register for embargo access, visit https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/embargoed_releases.

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