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Slides for The People of New York City
View the slides from Professor Jean Park's Information Literacy session. March 4, 2022

The People of New York City

Below is a shortlist of resources for researching New York City population data

NYC Historical Population Page
A good selection of historical population data from NYC.gov.
Census Tract Information
Locate the Census Tract number for your desired location.
American Community Survey Data Tables
Landing page to learn more about Census data products, including a description of each product, geographic areas covered, and tools containing these products, to help you access the information you need from the ACS.
FIPS Codes
American Community Survey tables utilize the Federal Information Processing System (FIPS) Codes for States and Counties

Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Social Explorer is dedicated to providing demographic information in an easily understood format: data maps. The database contains hundreds of interactive data maps of the United States. From Queens College.

Social Explorer LibGuide
A guide on the robust features of Social Explorer.

Video - Getting Your Data Out of Social Explorer

YouTube has several Social Explorer videos. Start with this video from the Reed College Library on searching and extracting your data from tables and from maps.

Getting Your Data out of Social Explorer - Reed College Library
This video explains how to get data out of Social Explorer. Data Librarian Mahria Lebow explains the process depending if it is a table, map or image, or if you want to access the underlying data for use in a quantitative package like R, STATA or Excel.