Data updates and corrections

October 22, 2026: housing stock, household incomes and lookalikes

Housing-cost pages now show the age, structure type and bedroom count of each place’s housing units (ACS B25034, B25035, B25024 and B25041) and household income brackets (B19001), each beside the state and U.S. shares. The rent section names the income at which the median gross rent equals 30% of income. Demographic pages add health insurance coverage (B27010), broadband subscriptions (B28002) and veteran status (B21001), and their distribution tables now include state and U.S. shares.

City profiles list statistically similar places elsewhere, chosen by the published lookalike method, and compare uninsured and broadband rates with the state. Percentages of 0% or 100% with a zero margin of error, which come from very small samples, are no longer ranked or used in takeaways. State pages replace repeated method text with each state’s population by place size and growth.

October 9, 2026: property taxes and jobs located in each place

Profiles and housing-cost pages add ACS B25103 median real estate taxes paid, and profiles add LEHD LODES 8.4 counts of jobs located in each place with industry, earnings and worker-age detail, compared with 2019.

September 30, 2026: housing detail, geography and nearby climate

City profiles and housing-cost pages now include ACS B25031 median gross rent by bedroom count, with the original 2020–2024 period, 2024 dollars, 90% margins of error and open-ended ranges. PEP county place parts identify all associated counties, and exact county-FIPS matches to the July 2023 delineations provide metropolitan or micropolitan context.

Nearby NOAA 1991–2020 station normals, corrected version 1.0.1, supply monthly temperature and precipitation tables for 9,111 places with a qualifying station within 25 km. Stations and distances are identified; unavailable coverage stays explicit. New address-check sections link official flood-map, school-district and broadband resources. Directory controls now say “Save for comparison” and explain the browser shortlist. Umami analytics is enabled, and the privacy and cookie notices reflect that change.

September 30, 2026: rankings and city research

Six separate ranking pages now document population, annual growth, median gross rent, owner-occupied home values, household income and usual working-from-home shares. Each includes eligibility, source periods, uncertainty, filtering and CSV exports. Open-ended medians are separated from exact-value ranks. Eight September articles add original national Census comparisons, interactive data tables and source-labeled chart exports. Their data review date is September 30, 2026, separate from their editorial dates.

The locator map supports city and state-name search alongside population and state filters. City metadata now identifies population, housing, income or the specific subpage topic. Every generated page uses a consistent content width; the publication theme is teal.

September 30, 2026: national profile coverage

Coverage includes every one of the 19,483 PEP place records, with 19,455 dedicated demographic pages and 18,468 housing-cost pages. Every state directory now links all covered places. Exact-GEOID ACS joins provide national housing filters and two-to-four-place comparisons.

The expanded release retains 27 ACS tables and 9,737,967 direct city estimates with their source uncertainty. Resident industry and occupation distributions have been added. The locator map now covers all 50 states and D.C., including separate Alaska and Hawaii insets. Source downloads are normalized by geography with a shared table dictionary. Seven population-record entities have no exact ACS place match; they keep population and Gazetteer profiles with the survey gap stated.

September 30, 2026: source imports

The initial release imports Census Population Estimates Program Vintage 2025, using the PEP place SUMLEV 162 records for the 50 states and District of Columbia. The population universe contains 19,483 places. July 1, 2025 is the latest estimate date; the series includes July estimates back to 2020 and the revised April 1, 2020 base. The source was published May 14, 2026.

The original sample used Austin, San Antonio, Raleigh, Denver, Seattle, Madison, Pittsburgh and Phoenix. The expanded national income, housing, demographics, resident employment and commuting modules use the 2020–2024 ACS five-year release, published January 29, 2026. State and national benchmark rows use the same survey period. Maps use 2025 Gazetteer internal points and 2024 simplified state outlines.

The import review identified that the current Gazetteer uses a pipe-delimited format and that detailed language table B16001 does not supply the initial sample’s city rows. The released city language pages therefore use C16001, with its source categories and universes retained. This is an initial-release processing decision, rather than a correction to an earlier published page.

National validation also identified open-ended median codes, including 3501 for rent of $3,500 or more. These are now displayed as source ranges, with comparison differences and median ratios suppressed when an endpoint is not exact. Numeric filters require the full possible range to meet their condition; source downloads retain the original codes and qualifiers.

Corrections log

No post-publication statistical corrections have been recorded for this initial release. This statement describes the log, not a guarantee that all information is error-free. When a verified correction changes a source value, geography join, denominator or formula, this page will name the affected measure, date and outcome. We do not fabricate correction history to imply a longer publication record.

How releases are reviewed

Population data are checked around the Census Bureau’s annual city release, generally in May. Survey modules are checked against the actual annual ACS five-year release schedule, rather than advancing a year in a title. A new PEP vintage replaces the complete comparable series. A new ACS release updates compatible city, state and national rows together.

Before publication, the retained source files and metadata are reviewed and all affected profiles, charts, comparisons, filters, rankings and downloads are rebuilt. Link and correction-report review is planned monthly. This is an editorial maintenance schedule; the current site does not poll sources or run an automatic scheduled data update.

Second-phase coverage will add climate, detailed workplace economics, district boundaries and connectivity after matching and validation. Later budgets, taxes, crime, neighborhoods and opinions require additional methodology and maintenance. Current pages label those modules as unavailable. Read source details or prepare a correction report.