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This site is one of the few available nationally to present census information in a printable graphics form.  In some cases, graphs are supported by table data.  Here you will currently find data available for the population by:

• total population (where population histories are available)
• age and sex in five-year age cohorts, including median ages
• generations and sex, using the Strauss and Howe generational designations
• ethnicity by race
• marital status by sex
• family types, by the presence of their own children
• households, by family and non-family types
• housing occupancy status and tenure, by occupied and vacant housing units
• school enrollment
• educational attainment
• household, family, and per capita income
• employment status for persons age 16 and older
• poverty status
• disability status
• grandparent as caregivers
• residential mobility

 For examples of graphics for the above categories, please click on the gray square.
 
Census data are available for the following civil divisions and areas:

• states
• counties
• townships
• places
• census tracts
• ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs)

navigating the site

To navigate this site, use the    gray and    gold buttons.  Selections made in the state menu, which appears in the left frame, will open more-detailed menus containing access to civil divisions and ZCTAs.  Selections in those two menus open a pop-up menu in the upper-right corner of the screen.  That pop-up menu contains the possible census topics currently available on this site.  Your selection from that menu opens the census graphic.  The menu hierarchy is as follows:

• census resource menu -- top frame
• state menu -- left frame
• civil division and ZIP code menus -- right frame
• census topic menu -- upper-right pop-up
• printable census graph -- upper-left pop-up
• "American FactFinder" user manuals -- left frame

Note that some pop-up menus must be closed before other selections can be made.  Where such is the case, a gold button and instructions appear within the menu.  Javascript must be enabled to open the pop-up menus and graphics.

ordering census graphics

If the census information you desire is not available on this site, you may contact ChurchGraf Research, Inc. at the address below and order what you need.  The cost for a single graph for any particular civil division or ZIP Code Tabulation Area is $5.00.  A one-time subscription is also available to organizations which reduces the single-graph cost by fifty percent.  ChurchGraf produces the graphics for your order and uploads them to the site, then contacts you of their availability.

Custom graphics can be created from the data at the Census Bureau's "American FactFinder."  Available data from the Summary File 1 (SF1) and Summary File 3 (SF3) are listed in the following geography, table, and thematic map links:
       2000 Summary File 1, 100-percent count tables
       2000 Summary File 1, 100-percent count thematic maps
       2000 Summary File 3, sample count tables
       2000 Summary File 3, sample count thematic maps
       1990 Summary File 1, 100-percent count tables and thematic maps
       1990 Summary File 3, sample count tables and thematic maps

This census website was originally prepared for the Dubuque District Congregational Development Committee of The Iowa Conference of The United Methodist Church by ChurchGraf Research, Inc.  With interest by other groups, it is being expanded to include other states in the United States.

Expressions of thanks go to Steve Troxel who is graciously hosting this site for ChurchGraf.