The American Community Survey (ACS) asks questions about our lives—how old we are, how much we earn, whether we work or go to school, and more.

The ACS enables communities to appropriately fund school-lunch, place new hospitals, build businesses and take other actions that lead to healthy communities.

This visualization provides a look at children's participation in extracurricular activities and various interactions in their lives.

Learn about the top 15 most popular last names in the U.S. by rank and discuss different trends and changes with your students.

This data visualization highlights population expansion into new territory, subsequent gains in population density, and increasing urbanization.

This data visualization reveals how the number and size of cities has increased between 1790 and 1890

The Great Migration generally refers to the massive internal migration of Blacks from the South to urban centers in other parts of the country.

This interactive data visualization includes three maps.

This data visualization takes a detailed look at annual percentage change in state population over the last decade and shows variation in growth patterns.

Median household income varies by county across the United States.

This data visualization shows population distribution by region between 1790 and 2010.

Passing through some of the most sparsely populated territory in the country, I-90 connects Seattle, Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, and Boston.

Running from Florida to Maine, I-95 passes through 15 states and several major cities.

Of the major interstates in the country, I-5 passes through the second-largest population (behind only I-95 on the nation's east coast).

This interactive data visualization shows the state-by-state population growth measured by the decennial censuses from 1790 to 2010.

Each bar represents the percentage of the population living within 2 degrees of longitude.