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Retrieve Census data

Product-specific wrappers for Census data products.

tc_get_acs()
Retrieve American Community Survey data
tc_get_decennial()
Retrieve Decennial Census data
tc_get_pep()
Retrieve Population Estimates Program data
tc_get_pdb()
Retrieve Census Planning Database data
tc_get_cbp()
Retrieve County Business Patterns data
tc_get_flows()
Retrieve ACS migration flows
tc_get_timeseries()
Retrieve Census time-series data

Explore metadata

Helpers for discovering datasets, variables, tables, geographies, and examples.

tc_datasets()
List Census datasets from the discovery catalog
tc_dataset()
Retrieve a single Census dataset record
tc_variables()
Retrieve Census variable metadata
tc_tables()
Retrieve Census table metadata
tc_table_variables()
Retrieve variables for a Census table
tc_groups()
Retrieve raw Census group metadata
tc_geography()
Retrieve Census geography metadata
tc_examples()
Retrieve Census example query metadata
tc_search_variables()
Search Census variable metadata
tc_values()
Retrieve encoded values metadata for a Census variable

API key tools

Manage Census API credentials.

tc_set_key()
Set the Census API key
tc_get_key()
Get the Census API key
tc_has_key()
Check for a Census API key