Census at the Tract Level
Summary File 2
sex/age
household
relationship
family size
Hispanic or Latino
American Indian and
Alaska Native tribes
Under 18 over 60
occupied housing
imputation
tenure
Asian alone
Native Hawaiian and
Other Pacific Islander alone
Group quarters
Not Hispanic
or Latino
The Census Questionnaire
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100% data or short form
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7 questions
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Sample data or long form
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34 topics
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What Data Will Be Available?
100% data or short-form information
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Redistricting Summary File
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Summary File 1
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Summary File 2
Sample data or long-form information
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Summary File 3
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Summary File 4
Subject Content
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36 Population tables (PCT) at the census tract level
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11 Housing tables (HCT) at the census tract level
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47 Tables
Subject Content
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total population
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132 race groups
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78 American Indian and Alaska Native tribe categories
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39 Hispanic or Latino groups
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• 250 Population Groups
Population Subjects
at the Census Tract Level - (PCT)
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PCT1 Total population
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PCT2 Urban and Rural (Final National File only)
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PCT3 Sex by age (single year of age)
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PCT4 Median age by sex
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PCT5 Sex by age (5-year groupings)
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PCT6 Households
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PCT7 Population in household
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PCT8 Average household size
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PCT9 Household size, household type and presence of own children
Population Subjects
at the Census Tract Level - (PCT)
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PCT10 Households by presence of people under 18 years by household type
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PCT11 Households by age of householder by household type (including living alone) by presence of own children
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PCT12 Household type by age of householder
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PCT13 Households by presence of people 60 years and over, household size and household type
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PCT14 Households by presence of people 65 years and over, household size, and household type
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PCT15 Households by presence of people 75 years and over, household size, and household type
Population Subjects
at the Census Tract Level - (PCT)
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PCT16 Households by presence of nonrelatives
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PCT17 Household type by household size
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PCT18 Relationship by household type (including living alone)
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PCT19 Relationship by household type for the population under 18 years
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PCT20 Relationship by age for the population under 18 years
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PCT21 Relationship by household type (including living alone) for the population 65 years and over
Population Subjects
at the Census Tract Level - (PCT)
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PCT22 Unmarried-partner households and sex of partner
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PCT23 Nonrelatives by household type
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PCT24 Families
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PCT25 Population in families
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PCT26 Average family size
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PCT27 Family type by presence and age of own children
Population Subjects
at the Census Tract Level - (PCT)
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PCT28 Family type by presence and age of related children
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PCT29 Own children under 18 years by family type and age
Population Subjects
at the Census Tract Level - (PCT)
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PCT30 Population substituted
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PCT31 Imputation of population items
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PCT32 Imputation of race
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PCT33 Imputation of Hispanic or Latino
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PCT34 Imputation of sex
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PCT35 Imputation of age
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PCT36 Imputation of relationship
Housing Subjects
at the Census Tract Level - (HCT)
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HCT1 Urban and Rural (Final National File only)
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HCT2 Tenure
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HCT3 Total population in occupied housing units
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HCT4 Total population in occupied housing units by tenure
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HCT5 Average household size of occupied housing units by tenure
Housing Subjects
at the Census Tract Level - (HCT)
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HCT6 Household size
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HCT7 Tenure by household size
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HCT8 Tenure by age of householder
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HCT9 Tenure by household type by age of household
Owner occupied:
Family households
Married-couple family
Householder 15 to 34 years
Householder 35 to 64 years
Householder 65 years and over
Housing Subjects
at the Census Tract Level - (HCT)
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HCT10 Housing units substituted
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HCT11 Imputation of tenure
Racial Groups
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Race alone
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Race alone or in combination
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Two or more races
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Two races including Some other race
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Two races excluding Some other race
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Three or more races
Race Alone Categories
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White alone
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Black or African American alone
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American Indian and Alaska Native alone
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Asian alone
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Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone
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Some other race alone
Race Alone or in Combination
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Tabulations will report race alone or in combination
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Responses not respondents
Two or More Races
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Single category that groups together all multiple-race responses
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This category together with the 6 single race-alone categories will add up to 100% of the population
Racial and Ethnic Groups
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Detailed American Indian categories
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Detailed Alaska Native categories
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Detailed Asian categories
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Detailed Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander categories
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Hispanic or Latino categories
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Not Hispanic or Latino categories
35 American
Indian Categories
Apache Delaware Pima
Blackfeet Houma Potawatomi
Cherokee Iroquois Pueblo
Cheyenne Kiowa Puget Sound Salish
Chickasaw Latin American Seminole
Chippewa (Aztec, Inca, Mayan, etc.) Shoshone
Choctaw Lumbee Sioux
Colville Menominee Tohomo O’Odham
Comanche Navajo Ute
Cree Osage Yakama
Creek Ottawa Yaqui
Crow Paiute Yuman
Alaska Native Categories
Alaskan Athabascan
Aleut
Eskimo
Tlingit-Haida
Detailed Asian Categories
Asian Japanese
Asian Indian Korean
Bangladeshi Laotian
Cambodian Malaysian
Chinese Pakistani
Chinese, except Taiwanese Sri Lankan
Taiwanese Thai
Filipino Vietnamese
Hmong Other Asian
Indonesian
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
Polynesian
Native Hawaiian
Samoan
Tongan
Micronesian
Guamanian or Chamorro
Melanesian
Fijian
Other Pacific Islander
Detailed Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Categories
Detailed Hispanic or
Latino Categories
Hispanic or Latino
(of any race)
Mexican
Puerto Rican
Cuban
Other Hispanic or Latino
Dominican (Dominican Republic)
Central American
Costa Rican
Guatemalan
Honduran
Nicaraguan
Panamanian
Salvadoran
South American
Argentinean
Bolivian
Chilean
Colombian
Ecuadorian
Paraguayan
Peruvian
Uruguayan
Venezuelan
Spaniard
All other Hispanic or Latino
• Alone
• Alone or in combination with one or more other races
• Some other race
• Some other race alone or in combination with one or more other races
• Two or more races
Not Hispanic or
Latino Categories
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Individual files
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50 States
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District of Columbia
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Puerto Rico
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Geographic Content
State
County
County Subdivision
Place (or place part)
Census tract
• State portion of American Indian and Alaska Native Area (with trust lands and with no trust lands) and Hawaiian home land
Geographic Levels
State Files
National Files
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Advance National File
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Final National File
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Product Availability
Data Accessibility
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FTP AFF CD-ROM/DVD
Difficulty High Low Low
Cost No No Yes
User Level High All All
Speed Variable Variable High
Connect Issues Possible Possible Unlikely
Download limits None 5 MB CD size
Graphical User Interface None Yes Yes
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
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File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
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For downloading complete dataset files
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Available at http://ftp2.census.gov
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American FactFinder
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www.census.gov (click on A or American FactFinder)
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factfinder.census.gov
American FactFinder
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Quick Tables
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Geographic Comparison Tables
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Detailed Tables
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CD-ROM and DVD
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Data provided on CD-ROM and DVD with software to view, print, and download items
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SF-2 data publicly accessible on www.census.gov
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