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

• Beta Prebuilt regions featuring SBA HubZones, HUD Opportunity Zones, and NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs)
• Combined RAE and SBE into one version: CBB 5.0
• Updated the code and look and feel
• Optimized dashboard variable queries
• Simple industry select list. Users can now select industries from simplified lists instead of the tree view
• The “Reference Layers” map action now indicates the number of currently applied reference layers when collapsed
• Links to NAICS information. When selecting industries, users can now easily open a link to more information for any given NAICS code
• Legend configuration settings are now visible on the main legend rather than within a settings panel on the legend
• Added Natural Breaks classification method
• Added list of industries in cluster under cluster name
• Implemented single click selection for region
• Updated Splash page and added Application Tour
• Allow users to select geography by clicking on Geo Ranking chart bars

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.