Access Census data in Python
Since Census publicized its data access API to developers, many Python pacakges had been developed to take advantage of that. Currently, there is a very long list of Python packages that allow use to access census data via scripts.
- census (work best with package
us) - censusdis (census discovery)
- cenpy
- census-data-downloader (for ACS data)
- pygris (for tiger boundary files)
Access Census data in R
There are also many packages in R that facilitate census data accsess. Here is a short list. In addition, many packages focus one specific datasets, instead of the geneal decennial census and ACS.
- tidycensus
- tigris
- censusapi
- totalcensus
- ipumsr