Thursday, November 19, 2009

Quick Facts Available for Kentucky, Counties and Cities

The Census Bureau provides a Quick Facts query service that makes it very easy to get the most current estimates and demographic data available from the Bureau about states, counties and cities. Once you select Kentucky from the map of states, you will be prompted to choose the county or city you are interested in from a pull down list. Hit the "Go" button and your data is shown.

Here are the links to Bath County and Shelby County.  A nice feature of these Quick Facts profiles is that the state level Kentucky estimates appear along side them so you can compare the county or city data with Kentucky's corresponding demographics.

The Census Bureau has developed numerous ways to locate and download data from their web sites. Quick Facts, as the name implies, is probably the quickest method of all.  If you want details not available from Quick Facts, the next place to look is American Fact Finder.

The Kentucky State Data Center also provides tables, maps, estimates and projections in formats not available from the Bureau at the KSDC web site.