ACS Data Users Group

This might not be the best place for this question, but I am wondering how can one download, say all census tracts for Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia without having to click on each county and census tract individually with the new website. I just cannot figure it out and I am worried since the American Factfinder website is going away soon.

Last I heard (in late April), the Census Bureau is still working on adding these kinds of checkboxes to the data.census.gov system . Some of these checkboxes (e.g., all counties in MD) are already available and they plan to add more of these in time for the 5-year data release later this year. The Census Bureau may be able to provide more detailed info on this.

Hi Mark, I have a similar question. Within factfinder, I used to have the option to select "All census tracts within the United States," for various common tables like S1701. I no longer see this as an option, both in factfinder and the new website.

Hi Laura,
The Census Bureau hasn't added this functionality to the new site yet, but they plan to fix this by the end of the year, when the new ACS 5-year data are released. In the meantime, they are encouraging users to continue to use FactFinder to access all census tracts in a state (or in the U.S.)
-Mark

This directory has census tracts per state compressed in .zip files.
www2.census.gov/.../