American Community Survey

The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey that provides data every year -- giving communities the current information they need to plan investments and services. Information from the survey generates data that help determine how more than $400 billion in federal and state funds are distributed each year. The ACS provides:

• Estimates of demographic, social, economic, and housing characteristics every year, not just every ten years
• Estimates for all states, counties, townships, incorporated places, tribal areas, census tracts, and census block groups

Demographic characteristics

• Age by Sex (Total population)
• Median age by sex, race, and Hispanic origin
• Hispanic or Latino origin

Economic characteristics

Commuting

• Means of transportation to work

Health Insurance

• Health insurance coverage by age

Income

• Households and families
  • Family income
  • Household income by age of householder
  • Median family income by family type, by presence of own children under 18 years of age
  • Median household income, median family income, median nonfamily income, and per capita income by race and Hispanic or Latino origin
• Individual​​​​​​
  • Median earnings by sex
  • Median earnings by sex by educational attainment
  • Median income by veteran status by sex

Labor Force Status

• Employment status by age and veteran status
• Employment status by educational attainment
• Unemployment rates

Poverty

• Poverty by race and Hispanic or Latino origin
• Poverty rates for Iowa counties
• Poverty status by age and sex

Social characteristics

Citizenship

• Nativity and citizenship status by race and Hispanic or Latino origin

Educational attainment

• Population with a high school degree and Bachelor's degree or higher
• Employment status by educational attainment

Household and family type, size, and relationship

• Household size by vehicles available
• Own children under 18 years of age by family type and age

Language spoken at home

• Age by language spoken at home
• Language spoken at home by the ability to speak English

Migration (previous residence)

• Migration by age
• County to county migration
  • In-migration
  • Out-migration

Place of birth

• Place of birth for the foreign-born population

Veteran status

• Employment status by age and veteran status
• Median income by veteran status by sex

Housing characteristics

Household type and size

• Average household size by tenure
• Tenure by household type and age of householder

Occupancy and vacancy status

• Vacancy status

Owner costs

• Median monthly housing costs
• Median selected monthly owner costs as a percentage of household income

Renter statistics

• Gross rent

Tenure (Owner/Renter occupied units)

• Tenure by year structure built
• Total population in occupied housing units by tenure by units in structure

Value of home (Owned and vacant)

• Median value of owner-occupied housing units
• Value of owner-occupied housing units