Census Business Builder offers key data in a user-friendly interface.

• Easy to use menus and Search tools to select the location you’d like to research and nearly all types of businesses.
• Interactive maps to browse and download data about the selected area and type of businesses.
• A customizable dashboard that includes time series, geographic comparison, and geographic ranking charts.
• Interactive and downloadable reports (including charts) that can be easily incorporated into your research.
• Optimized for your smartphone or tablet.

• New data items for the Building Permits Survey (BPS)
• New Consumer Spending data item: Consumer expenditures per household on Computer information services
• Basemap update for the Gulf of America
• Ability to search for Prebuilt Regions directly from the region search box
• Swap Primary and Secondary map variables within the dashboard
• Metadata updates
• Bug fixes for known issues

View flyers that provide an Overview of Census Business Builder.

Please email us at ewd.outreach@census.gov with your feedback on the tool, including what you like about it as well as what changes you’d like to see in future versions.