Citizen Voting Age Population by Race and Ethnicity

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Citizen Voting Age Population by Race and Ethnicity

January 23, 2024

Written by:

Redistricting & Voting Rights Data Office (rdo@census.gov or 301-763-4039)

Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) by Race and Ethnicity - A Special Tabulation from the ACS 5-Year Estimates

A Citizen Voting Age by Race and Ethnicity (CVAP) special tabulation was originally created from the Census 2000 long form. This original CVAP special tabulation was produced at the request of a group of data users and was published in 2002 for use in voting rights analysis.

At the request of the Department of Justice, the U.S. Census Bureau began publishing an annual CVAP special tabulation from the most current American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates starting with the 2005-2009 5-year estimates in February of 2011.

The 2002 special tabulation and the subsequent ACS versions are all published down to the block-group level of geography.

NOTE: The CVAP special tabulation data is organized in the tabs below by the last year of the ACS 5-year span or the year of the Decennial Census, depending on whether ACS or Decennial data were used to produce the dataset. Please be aware this is not the same as the year of the data's publication (e.g., the 2018 Tab below is for the 2014-2018 ACS 5-Year CVAP special tabulation which was published in February of 2020).

2009

Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) Special Tabulation from the 2005-2009 5-Year American Community Survey

The data files, in both CSV and SAS formats, are posted through these links. The zip files contain the CVAP documentation along with nationwide files for the following geographies:

Nation
State
County
Place
MCD (Minor Civil Division - only for CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT, MI, WI, NJ, NY, MN, and PA)
Tract (Note: these are Census 2000 tracts, not 2010 Census tracts)
Block Groups (Note: these are Census 2000 block groups, not 2010 Census block groups)
NOTE: Tract and Block Group level data from the 2005-2009 ACS are based on the Census 2000 boundaries for those entities. In a short number of counties, the 2010 Census or an interim version of the 2010 Census Tract and Block Groups was used. Details about this discrepancy can be found here Geography Release Notes for 2009 under the "Census Tracts and Block Groups in 2005-2009 ACS 5-year Estimates with Geographic Code and Definition Problems" banner.