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  • 1.  Population and housing unit estimates for the PUMAs.

    Posted 07-30-2021 04:46 PM

    The Census Bureau provides county level estimates of population and housing units here:

    https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/data-sets.html

    I'm wondering if these estimates are available at a PUMA level as well? If not, how would one go about "cross-walking" county level estimates to the PUMAs?



  • 2.  RE: Population and housing unit estimates for the PUMAs.

    Posted 07-30-2021 06:40 PM

    PUMAs should be available for 1-year ACS data products. You may need to expand the filters to include non-standard geographies. PUMA is summary level 795 if you can search that way.



  • 3.  RE: Population and housing unit estimates for the PUMAs.

    Posted 07-30-2021 06:44 PM

    The PUMAs are available in the 5 year and 1 year ACS. However, where do you get the exact count of the total number of people/households in a given PUMA? Isn't the ACS only sampling a certain number of households/people from everywhere?