Urban Studies - Research Guide: Data & Statistics

Easy to access maps and tables from 1790-2010 census, plus American Community Survey through 2015. Downloadable in Excel, CSV, SPSS, SAS, and Stata file formats.

The US Census Bureau's primary delivery platform - a free data site - for the American Community Survey, the most recent Decennial Census, and other Census Bureau data releases.

Source for free shapefiles and KMLs of census boundaries, for use with GIS or Google Earth (KML)

Microdata datasets for US national surveys of municipal governments conducted by the International City / County Management Association. Topics covered are: municipal form of government, economic development, alternative service delivery, government technology solutions, innovations and emerging practices in local government, immigrant communities, smart cities, sustainability in local government, and state of the profession.

Online data analysis tools and microdata datasets for the Southeast Pennsylvania Household Health Survey, the largest and longest-running metropolitan health survey in the US.

Includes:
• Cost of Living Index Calculator, covering cost of living indexes and prices for 76 goods and services in 250 U.S. cities, 1990 to the present.
• Diversity Index, using employment, demographic, and economic indicators to compare economic diversity across U.S. counties.

Map-based visualization of philanthropic funding flows.

Findings of studies of local governments collected by the International City/County Management Association, including statistics on police and fire personnel compensation.

Derived from the FBI's UCR, this CQ Press publication ranks cities and metropolitan areas by total crime and Crime Index (Part I) offenses: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson. 1996-present.

Interactive historic demographic, social, economic, and industry data on US cities, counties, and states. Produced from CCDB data files by University of Virginia Library.

Reports and statistics on urban issues.

Data and maps on homelessness.

Cross-national time series data from the United Nations Human Settlement Program. Tables may report on individual cities or on cities aggregated within the country.

"OpenDataPhilly is a catalog of open data in the Philadelphia region. In addition to being the official open data repository for the City, it includes data sets from many organizations in the region."