A Citizen Voting Age by Race and Ethnicity (CVAP) special tabulation was originally created, by a data user’s request, from the Census 2000 long form and published in 2002 for use in voting rights analysis.
After the 2010 Census, at the request of the Department of Justice and starting in February of 2011, the U.S. Census Bureau began publishing an annual CVAP tabulation from the most recent American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates. The 2002 special tabulation and the subsequent ACS versions created starting in 2011, are all published down to the block-group level of geography.
In 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau will again publish the annual ACS 5-year CVAP produced from the 2015-2019 ACS in early February of 2021.
However, the U.S. Census Bureau will also produce the Post-2020 Census CVAP Special Tabulation, based on the 2020 Census and administrative records data. This will be published down to the block level of geography.
NOTE: The CVAP special tabulation data is organized in the tabs below by the last year of the ACS 5-year span or the year of the Decennial Census, depending on whether ACS or Decennial data was used to produce the dataset. Please be aware this is not the same as the year of the data's publication which is usually the following year. (Ex. 2018 Tab = 2014-2018 ACS 5-Year CVAP Estimates published in February of 2020)
The documentation for the Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) Special Tabulation From the 2010-2014 5-Year American Community Survey is now available.
The data files, in both CSV and SAS formats, are posted below. The zip files contain the CVAP documentation along with nationwide files for the following geographies: