Many Tennessee data users turn to the American Community Survey when searching out statistics about Tennessee’s population. Information about race/ethnicity, […]

The conclusion of 2020 Census self-response and field operations is September 30th, but with just days to go, efforts to complete the count of Tennessee’s residents continue.

Registration is now open for the Tennessee State Data Center’s Fall Webinar Series. We’ve lined up a slate of three events focused on helping you be ready for next year’s 2020 Census data releases that are scheduled for March, 2021.

The September 30 deadline for collecting responses is now just 36 days away, and door-to-door field work by Census takers is underway across the state. While this signals that the end of the 2020 Census enumeration process is near, there is still work to do.

Door-to-door follow-up is now underway for homes that have not responded to the 2020 Census in Tennessee, and a new September 30 deadline has increased the urgency of getting all Tennesseans counted.

Population data is used to calculate infection rates and in cooperation with the Census Bureau, we’ve compiled new age data for all 95 Tennessee counties to help improve the accuracy of age-based COVID-19 rates.

Public Use Microdata Areas, or PUMAs, are nonoverlapping, statistical geographic areas that partition each state into geographic areas containing no fewer than 100,000 people each. In 2021, the State Data Center will lead an update to the PUMA boundaries. We’ll be seeking input from data users across the Tennessee.

According to 2018 census data, there were over 435,000 veterans living in Tennessee comprising about 8.5% of the state’s population. We’ve compiled links to state and county-level data to help ease the search for this information.

Off-campus student data is important to state and local funding, political representation, and planning. That’s why the U.S. Census Bureau is now requesting college and universities provide that information.

Microdata is a set of individual responses to the American Community Survey that have been anonymized. Why should microdata matter to you? Because it can be used to create custom tables about population and households in combinations that are not found in data.census.gov pre-compiled tables.