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We are pleased to announce the release of the 2024 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates, the most relied-on source for up-to-date social, economic, and housing information every year. The ACS is the only source of local statistics for most of the 40+ topics it covers, such as educational ...

Thank you, Dave! What I find in those tables is text like this: The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey that provides data every year -- giving communities the current information they need to plan investments and services. The ACS covers a broad range of topics about social, economic, ...

We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2024 American Community Survey 1-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, September 11, 2025. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare for next week's data release. More information ...

FWIW, I put in a help request to census.data@census.gov, and got back a reply from acso.users.support@census.gov. I was informed that the data products specialists "thought this was a really great idea" and that it was passed along to the developers.

Does anyone know of a resource to find the start dates for one-year and five-year ACS tables? For example, S1502 had its first year with one- and five-year data in 2015, B01001 in 2010. S2801 had its first with one-year data in 2015, and 5-year data in 2017. I'm looking for a way to find those dates ...