ACS Changelog
June 17th, 2025
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
If you have questions, please contact us by emailing our engineering team at [email protected].
June 2025
1.13.1 (June 25)
Added
- Introduced the
2025.3
dataset.
Changed
- Updated the default
datarun
from2025.2
to2025.3
.
June 2025
1.13.0 (June 10)
Added
- Default
datarun
set to2025.2
.
June 2025
1.12.1 (June 3)
Added
- Introduced the
2025.2
dataset.
Removed
- Removed the
2024.3
dataset.
March 2025
1.12.0 (March 11)
Changed
- Updated the default
datarun
from2024.3
to2025.1
.
February 2025
1.11.1 (February 6)
Changed
- Updated the
dataruns
field in the/meta
response to include2025.1
.
Added
- Introduced the
2025.1
dataset.
October 2024
1.11.0 (October 18)
Added
- Added support for the
datarun
query parameter to switch between dataruns. - Added the
dataruns
field in the/meta
response, listing available dataruns. - Introduced the
2024.4
dataset.
Changed
- Updated the
dataruns
field in the/meta
response to include2024.4
. - Default
datarun
set to2024.3
.
July 2024
1.10.0 (July 3)
Changed
- Data updated, using 2024.3 areas.
Added
cdp
level data was added.
April 2024
1.9.12 (April 29)
Changed
- Data updated, using 2024.2 areas.
February 2024
1.9.11 (February 12)
Changed
- Data updated, using 2024.1 areas.
November 2023
1.9.10 (November 20)
Changed
- Data updated, using 2023.4 areas.
July 2023
1.9.9 (July 26)
Changed
- Data updated, using 2023.3 areas.
May 2023
1.9.8 (May 9)
Changed
- Data updated, using 2023.2 areas.
March 2023
1.9.7 (March 24)
Refactored
- Updated back-end infrastructure.
January 2023
1.9.6 (January 24)
Changed
- Data updated, using 2023.1 areas.
November 2022
1.9.5 (November 14)
Changed
- Data updated, using 2022.4 areas.
August 2022
1.9.4 (August 10)
Changed
- Data updated, using 2022.3 areas.
April 2022
1.9.3 (April 26)
Changed
- Data updated, using 2022.2 areas.
January 2022
1.9.2 (January 24)
Changed
- Data updated, using 2022.1 areas.
April 2021
1.9.1 (April 13)
Fixed
- Converted ACS no data estimates to
null
.
March 2021
1.9.0 (March 15)
Added
- 10 new metrics (see
/meta/metrics
for more detail):adult_civilian_population
carpooling
civilian_noninstitutionalized_population
cohabiting_couple_households
cohabiting_couple_households_pct
commute_other_means
driving_alone
public_transport
walking
workers_16_and_over
Changed
- Updated Census data version to 2019.
Fixed
- Derived percentage metrics now correctly represent national percentages as reported by ACS. Derived metrics only occur when an Emsi Area is not represented in the latest version of ACS.
Removed
- 4 removed metrics:
families
families_pct
non_family_households
non_family_households_pct
December 2020
1.8.0 (December 4)
Added
zip
level data was added.tract
level data was added.
Changed
- The ACS data now uses Emsi geographies.
September 2020
1.7.0 (September 25)
Added
- 10 new metrics (see
/meta/metrics
for more detail):carpooling_pct
commute_other_means_pct
driving_alone_pct
employed_with_health_insurance
median_house_value
median_monthly_rent
non_english_households_pop
population
public_transport_pct
walking_pct
Refactored
- Restructured back-end data structures to improve API resource allocation and performance.
June 2020
1.6.0 (June 15)
Fixed
- The following ACS estimate values are now returned as
null
:-888888888
– estimate is not applicable or not available-999999999
– the number of sample cases is too small
January 2020
1.5.0 (January 30)
Changed
- Updated Census data version to 2018.
Fixed
- Replaced
fips
withcounty
in API documentation asfips
is not a valid level.
March 2019
1.4.2 (March 20)
Changed
- Upgraded proxy web server.
1.4.1 (March 4)
Changed
- Minor performance improvements.
February 2019
1.4.0 (February 26)
Changed
- ACS estimate values of
-666666666
, denoting insufficient sample observations for a given region, are now returned asnull
.
1.3.0 (February 14)
Changed
- Clarified wording in API documentation.
- Changed the
nonfamily_households
andnonfamily_households_pct
metrics tonon_family_households
andnon_family_households_pct
respectively. - Updated titles/descriptions for the following metrics:
foreign_born_population
,foreign_born_population_pct
,disabled_population
,households
,non_family_households
, andnon_family_households_pct
.
1.2.0 (February 12)
Changed
median_household_income
andper_capita_income
metric now use the newmoney
format.- Updated descriptions for
vacant_housing_units
,homeowner_vacancy_rate
, andrental_vacancy_rate
. - Updated
homeowner_vacancy_rate
andrental_vacancy_rate
to use thepercent
format. - Changed metric name of
veteran_status
toveterans
. - All metric titles are now in title case (the capitalization of the first letter of each word).
- Updated attribution title and body to include "American Community Survey" instead of just "ACS".
Added
- New
money
metric format. - New
veterans_pct
,foreign_born_population_pct
, anddisabled_population_pct
metrics.
Fixed
- Updated
veterans
,foreign_born_population
, anddisabled_population
to use the correct ACS variables. - Corrected
nonfamily_households
andnonfamily_households_pct
metrics, they no longer overwrite one another.
1.1.0 (February 5)
Changed
- In the
/meta/metrics
and/meta/metrics/{metric}
endpoints the following field names changed to be more accurate to what they represent:acs_census_tables
changed toacs_census_variables
acs_census_table_links
changed toacs_census_variable_links
Added
- 31 new metrics (see
/meta/metrics
for more detail):median_age
per_capita_income
poverty_level_pct
children_poverty_level_pct
seniors_poverty_level_pct
mean_commute_time
remote_workers
remote_workers_pct
housing_units
occupied_housing_units
occupied_housing_units_pct
vacant_housing_units
vacant_housing_units_pct
homeowner_vacancy_rate
rental_vacancy_rate
veteran_status
foreign_born_population
disabled_population
avg_household_size
households
families
families_pct
avg_family_size
married_family_households
married_family_households_pct
male_householder_family_households
male_householder_family_households_pct
female_householder_family_households
female_householder_family_households_pct
nonfamily_households
nonfamily_households
January 2019
1.0.0 (January 28)
Added
- Start a changelog to document updates to the API.