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With the midterm elections fast approaching, the nation speculates on who will end up controlling Congress. We take a closer look at one of the key districts in play using Social Explorer’s election maps and demographic data. Examining California’s 48th congressional district, Republican incumbent Rep. Dana Rohrabacher has been in office since 1989, after working as a speechwriter and special assistant to Ronald Reagan. In 2016, Rohrabacher won by 16.6 percentage poin... more

We added 2016 congressional election results to our Election Maps collection. All of our election data come from Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. In addition to winners and voter turnouts, the maps also include voting age population, citizens of voting age population, and competitiveness. As we approach the mid-term elections, learn more about recent and past elections by exploring our election maps. In the following example, we compare Democratic and Repu... more

A New York Times article on the front page of the real estate section exploring where young families in New York City are moving cites Social Explorer's Andrew Beveridge on the demographic shifts. In "New York's New Strollervilles," reporter Stefanos Chen looks into the "unassuming neighborhoods, mostly outside of Manhattan, where new and growing families are putting down roots — or at least seeking respite from runaway housing prices in more expens... more

Gentrification is dramatically changing the urban landscape and bringing a host of new challenges, as well as opportunities to local leaders, business owners, urban planners, and real estate investors across the nation. Some are still quick to dismiss it as just another buzzword thrown around without much thought, yet it is proving to be one of the leading factors of change - whether we’re talking just about business and housing, or entire industries, such as the real estate industry an... more

The newly released one-year 2017 American Community Survey is now available on Social Explorer. Fresh from the Census Bureau and now ready for you--subscribers can access this new data through our reports and maps. The American Community Survey (ACS) is an extensive annual survey administered by the Census Bureau to a sample of about three million households nationwide. In over 200 tables on dozens of topics, the survey includes variables o... more

As football fans around the globe get ready for the FIFA World Cup semi-final matches, Social Explorer put on its cleats and dug into data related to the four remaining teams. We looked at residents with the same ancestries as the teams to locate top fans who might be cheering the most. Find out more about US residents with ancestry ties to the different teams using American Community Survey Data (2012-16). (We used the modified cutpoints to help make each ancestry category, especially s... more

At Social Explorer, we spend a lot of time helping our users and making data easy for them. After a while we noticed certain trends and patterns in usage and the variables users looked for the most, such as age, sex, race, income, education, commute to work, house value, and many other. So, we decided to create a new tool that instantly provides you with the most essential data beautifully visualized and presented. We’re excited to announce  Demographic Profiles b... more

The royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has put the spotlight on the former actress now known as the Duchess of Sussex. The conversations around Markle’s identity as a biracial American mirror how the U.S. Census Bureau has handled terminology and rules for the survey’s racial categories over the years. Markle, whose father is white and mother is black, has frequently commented on her mixed-race identity and the prejudices and confusion that she has faced.... more

Social Explorer offers detailed data on citizenship by age and race available in our maps and reports. These data come from a special tabulation by the U.S. Census Bureau. These data are available from Census 2000, as well as American Community Survey years 2009 through 2016. Explore the data across the nation and states all the way down to the census tract and block group level (where available). Referred to as CVAP (Citizens of Voting Age Population), the data... more

Startling new maps from the Anti-Discrimination Center vividly show the depth and breadth of residential segregation in the United States.  Powered by Social Explorer, the maps allow the public to explore at the state, county, census tract, and census block group levels.  Fifty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, residential segregation remains a fixture in American life. These interactive maps uncover extreme segregation in ways that mo... more