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The Census Bureau conducts over 100 surveys each year to measure the nation's people, places, and economy. Over 40 of these cover business activity on the local and national levels. These data can help entrepreneurs and existing business owners start and grow their businesses and help regional planners promote smart business growth in their communities. The tools below (presented from the easiest to use to the most comprehensive) provide access to the data from the Economic Census.

Finding Economic Census Data Using Quickfacts

QuickFacts

Quickfacts provides demographic, business, and geographic statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more.

QuickFacts Help

Information on What’s New and FAQs, including tips on how to use the Table, Map, and Chart views and other features.

Finding Economic Census Data Using Census Business Builder

Census Business Builder

CBB is a suite of services that provide selected demographic and economic data from the Census Bureau and other sources.

Census Business Builder Help and FAQs

Help with using CBB, including system requirements, and access to Overview and How-To tutorial flyers.

Finding Economic Census Data Using the Industry Statistics Portal (ISP) and the Industry Snapshots

Industry Statistics Portal Help

Tips and tricks and FAQ about the ISP such as finding your industry, Census Bureau programs included, and links to data.

Finding Economic Census Data Using American FactFinder (AFF)

DATA TOOL

American FactFinder (AFF)

This interactive application provides statistics about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas.

General American FactFinder Help

Tips & a virtual tour on how to use AFF search features, work with search results, & use features to view & save data.

Economic Census in American FactFinder Help

The guides below provide information about how to access and use American Factfinder (AFF) to find Economic Census data. Using the guides, you can learn how to use specific functions to complete popular tasks in AFF.

AFF User Guide [<1.0 MB]

Advanced Search [<1.0 MB]

Community Facts [<1.0 MB]

Data Manipulation [<1.0 MB]

Guided Search [<1.0 MB]

Reading Tables [<1.0 MB]

What Geographies are Available for Economic Data? [<1.0 MB]

Geography Guide [24KB]

Finding Economic Census Data Using the Census API

Developers

Access to Census datasets via Application Programming Interfaces, including a Discovery Tool that lists all datasets available and a developers forum.

Census Data API Help

A User’s Guide that instructs developers and researchers on how to use the Census Data API to request data from the U.S. Census Bureau datasets.