ACS Data Users Group

I would like to see data for businesses--type of business and number of people employed by tract in the 2019 ACS. Is there such a table?

ACS is a household survey. Census does have business data products, but for reasons of confidentiality protection, you don't even get detailed data at the county level -- that is, publicly available. If you are a faculty at a university that has an affiliated Census Research Data Center, then you may try your luck with getting the data through these.

Do you happen to know what happened to the Atlanta CRDC? I'm getting this: Not Found - Andrew Young School of Policy Studies (gsu.edu)

You might be looking for County Business Patterns which can also be done for zip codes www.census.gov/.../cbp.html

Thank you!

I'd recommend Census's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics, which has a wealth of detailed employment data (going down to the block level!). Also worth checking out is BLS's Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, which is similar to County Business Patterns but has less lag and a larger sample of data. QCEW and County Business Patterns aren't available at the tract level, though (CBP is sort of at the ZIP code level).

More on LEHD here: https://lehd.ces.census.gov/

Thanks!

That's great information thanks Bernie! I find CBP frustrating for lag and also privacy -- you go to a place you know is dominated by one industry and it's not reflected because there are one or two big players and there's a concern the # of employees would be proprietary. Bottom line glad to have an alternative