U.S. Census Resources: U.S. Census Information
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Electronic Resources
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Data.NOLA.govThis site is a catalog of public data sets produced by the City of New Orleans. If you don't find the data you need, please follow the "Suggest a dataset" link at the bottom of this page.
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Louisiana State Census Data CenterDemographics and Census Geography for Louisiana.
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U.S. Census BureauThe Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation's leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.
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Census Data (Explore Census Data)Online census information - 1990 & 2000
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DataFerrettDataFerrett is a unique data analysis and extraction tool-with recoding capabilities-to customize federal, state, and local data to suit your requirements. Brought to you by the Census Bureau.
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Census Tract Maps1940 - 2000
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Social ExplorerSome material requires a subscription, but there is free access to census reports and maps.
Historical Census Data
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1920 census through the HathiTrust databaseIf you can't access the US Census Bureau file try this link.
2010 Census
- 2010 Census
- U.S. Census Bureau
- American Factfinder (1990 & 2000)
- American Factfinder 2010 (coming Feb 2011)
- Louisiana Census Data
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