Progress of the 2010 Census. Official national and state population counts, used to apportion seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, must be delivered to the President of the United States by the Census Bureau on or before December 31, 2010.

Lost on the U.S. Census page? Try the AskCensus feature.

Use the Statistical Abstract to get a summary of statistics from the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations. Also links to the Georgia Statistics System of the University of Georgia for state-specific statistics.

American Factfinder. Use this to get a fact sheet of data. Search by ZIP Code, town, or state. For more detailed data, use the American Community Survey.

BEARFACTS provides a snapshot of personal income data by state. Link from here to more detailed information by general industry categories and locality.

Immigration statistics are available from the Dept. of Homeland Security.

Check County Business Patterns for economic data specific to Fulton County or the Atlanta metro area.

Older Census: The University of Virginia Library's Historical Census Browser. Examine state and county topics for individual census years or over time and generate maps. The U.S. Census page contains a listing of reports released for each decennial census, together with links to any that have been made available online. The Ivan Allen Jr. Reference Department on the second floor of Central Library downtown has older censuses in paper format. All library branches have online subscriptions to databases that include individual Census information. Use the Library's genealogical databases to find online images of individual census pages.

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