Census Bureau

CENSUS 2000 PROFILES OF GENERAL DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS: NATIONAL SUMMARY AND SPECIAL PACKAGES


 Availability: You can purchase the complete National Summary (1,522 pp) as a print-on-demand product or access the data through the American FactFinder. Technical documentation is available online  In addition, you can order special packages that are subsets of the summary for all metro areas, American Indian Areas, etc. (See below.) Ordering information below. You can also order state packages of profiles for counties, cities, congressional districts, and other areas within the state. Also available on the Summary File 1 CD-ROMs and DVDs

Subject content: The Profiles of General Demographic Characteristics contain the 100-percent data compiled from the Census 2000 questions asked of all people and about every housing unit. Population items include population, sex, age, race, Hispanic or Latino, household relationship, household type and group quarters; housing items include occupancy, housing tenure, and average household size of owner-occupied/renter-occupied units. The profiles include a total of 71 population and 25 housing data.

Areas covered in the National Summary Profile:

The one-page U.S. profile and the technical documentation comes with each of the above-mentioned packages.

File format & software: Portable Document Format (.PDF). Files also available in ASCII at the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site.

Geography: Separate profiles for each of the areas identified above. In addition, there is a standard one-page profile for the following areas (over 40,000 in all): U.S., states, counties, county subdivisions, places, consolidated cities, metropolitan statistical areas (state part), consolidated metropolitan statistical areas (state part), primary metropolitan statistical areas (state part), congressional districts, American Indian Areas, Alaska Native Areas, and Hawaiian Home Lands. These profiles are available on the Web or for sale in print-on-demand state packages.

Order Information

Census contact: Customer Services Center, 301-763-INFO(4636) (orders); Population Division, 301-763-2422 (content)


National Summary and Special Packages