GIS Data

Global-scale data on human population characteristics, land use, land cover, climate and other environmental characteristics. Includes historical data sets.

Project intended to the contribute to creation of a comprehensive set of data on social-scientific, health, and environmental data for the world as a whole and for its constituent regions and localities, for the past four or five centuries.

The U.S. Census Bureau is the primary generator of demographic statistics about the U.S. population. Access data from the decennial census, as well as the American Community Survey (ACS) and the American Housing Survey (AHS). Also includes business statistics, economic indicators, and foreign trade data.

NHGIS provides aggregate census data and boundary files for the United States from 1790 to present.

Data sets from the MAPC, a regional planning agency that serves people who live and work in the 101 cities and towns of Metro Boston.

This blog provides a list of some of the most common questions asked when mapping demographic data within ArcGIS.

Indicators in socioeconomic disadvantage and affluence, walkability, crime, land use, recreational centers, libraries, fast food, climate, healthcare, housing, public transit, and more. Measures are available at multiple levels of spatial scale, from county to census tract to block group.

Mapping Inequality introduces viewers to the records of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation on a scale that is unprecedented. Here you can browse more than 150 interactive maps and thousands of “area descriptions.” These materials afford an extraordinary view of the contours of wealth and racial inequality in Depression-era American cities and insights into discriminatory policies and practices that so profoundly shaped cities that we feel their legacy to this day.

Data portal includes geospatial data sets, web-based mapping tools, and APIS from U.S. HUD.

Geospatial data portal from the National Center for Education Statistics. Includes U.S. school locations, district boundaries, and more.