Demography and Population Resource Guide: Federal Websites

The Bureau of Justice Statistics is the primary source for criminal justice statistics. It's mission is to collect, analyze, and publish information on crime, criminal offenders, victims, and the operation of justice systems at all levels.

Provides links to government data on the U.S. labor force, unemployment, salaries, and wages.

An integrated information system that provides a central point of access to reports and numeric public health data, including Healthy People Data 2010.

Official website of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. The agency integrates collection and reporting of federal data on child and family issues. Reports are available free in PDF format.

Data.census.gov is the new platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The OIS website provides the full-text of the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, data profiles of permanent residents, and profiles of naturalized citizens.

The United States Census Bureau has created the International Data Base, a data bank of statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 228 countries and areas of the world.

This is a PDF of the Decennial Censuses from 1790 to 2000.

This is the "primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations." Topics include public schools/districts, elementary/secondary education, post secondary education, and the Nation's Report Card. See notable data below:

The nation's principal health statistics agency. Includes vital statistics, trends in health and mortality rates, disease data, nutrition and diet statistics, and more. Provides both state and federal data.

Links to poverty data within the Current Population Surveys (CPS), American Community Surveys (ACS), Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), and more.

Offers comparative data for each state and county in 33 categories of information. Includes cities of 25,000 or larger.

The SDC program provides efficient access to U.S. Census Bureau data and information through a network of agencies in each state. The SDCs are official sources of demographic, economic, and social statistics produced by the Census Bureau.

Includes the texts from 1890 through 2012.

Provides social, demographic, and economic data on the United States, including data series from the 2000 census. Includes international data.

Provides searchable access to tabulated state and federal data.