Austin City Connection
Directory
Help
Search
  Entrance to the Austin History Center
The Austin History Center
    Austin and Travis County Census and Demographic Information
 

Links to helpful demographic data and lists of materials available at the Austin History Center

For brief background information consult
Census Background Information

 

 

Home
Collections
About AHC
Exhibit

Census Microforms -- Austin and Travis County

Microfilm specific to Austin, Texas; Travis County, Texas; and the Capital Area Planning Council Region which covers Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Llano, Travis and Williamson Counties.

Census 1820-2000 Printed Materials -- About Austin and Travis County

Materials located in the general collection at the Austin History Center

U. S. Census Bureau

American FactFinder
http://factfinder.census.gov/java_prod/dads.ui.homePage.HomePage

American Community Survey
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/

Poverty Tables
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty.html

State and Local Government Data
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/govs/www/index.html

City of Austin Data Sources

Growth Watch Reports
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/growth/default.htm

Austin Area Demographic Profile from Growth Watch

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/census/

Median Household Income by Census Tract, Travis County
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/growth/travinc.htm

Crime Listed by Census Tract for 1999 and Earlier
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/police/crimestats.htm

State of Texas Data Sources

Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

Population and Economic Detail for Cities, Counties, MSAs, and States
http://www.cpa.state.tx.us/ecodata/popdata/popfiles.html

Texas Department of Economic Development

Business and Industry Data Center
http://www.bidc.state.tx.us

 

Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission

Recommended links to GIS systems
http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/gis/demolink.html

Texas State Data Center

Online Data For Texas
http://txsdc.utsa.edu/

 

Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Recommended links to other sources of data
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/general/

County Data Sources including Travis County

Capital Area Planning Council Travis County Data
http://www.capco.state.tx.us/Information_Clearinghouse/

County and City Data Book (University of Virginia)
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/ccdb/

WWW access to the electronic versions of the 1988 and 1994 County and City Data Books

County Business Patterns 1993-2003 (Census Bureau) http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/cbptotal.html

Includes a separate report for each State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and a U.S. summary. Covers agricultural services, forestry, and fisheries; mining; contract construction; manufacturing; transportation and other public utilities; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services.

Other Useful Sources

Public Use Microdata Samples (University of Virginia)
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/pums/

The Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) prepared by the U. S. Bureau of the Census as part of the 1990 Census of Population and Housing.

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (University of Michigan)
http://www.ipums.org/

Historical census microdata for social and economic research. The twenty-five samples, spanning 1850 to 1990, collectively provide quantitative information on long-term changes in the American population.

For 1880 PUMS data by individual household try: http://www.genealogy.org/~1880-census.

Oklahoma University--Center for Economic and Management Research-- http://cemr.ou.edu/censuslinks.htm

Links provided by the Oklahoma University's Center for Economic and Management Research, Oklahoma's premiere source of custom economic analysis and survey research

University of Michigan Documents Center--specialized materials
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/index.html#doctop

Census Index and Census Updating features to help explain Census information

University of Missouri (State Data Census Center)
http://www.oseda.missouri.edu/mscdc/census/us/

State, county, and municipal level data for the entire nation

Government Information Sharing Project
http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/usaco-stateis.html

The Government Information Sharing Project is a Web interface to government datasets from: Bureau of the Census, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and National Center for Education Statistics via a private contractor, MESA Group.

United States Historical Data Browser (ICPSR)
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/

Describes the people and the economy of each state and county from 1790 to 1970. Inititally created by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), in Ann Arbor, Michigan.


Go to Austin Public Library The Austin History Center is a
division of the Austin Public Library.

Email the Austin History Center.
Return to the Austin History Center home page.

Austin City Connection
Prepared by Ben Ballingee, Kim Blackburn, Carlos Ovalle, & Sue Soy
Modified: Sun Apr 30 22:39:29 2000