Research and Course Guides: Rural Sociology: Data and Demographics

Websites

Census Data This link opens in a new window
U.S. Census Bureau data from the decennial census and their dozens of other population and economic surveys.
PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
easy-to-use online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, economics, and more in communities across the U.S.

American Community Survey
Data from the ACS can be found in American Fact Finder or reports can be searched on its own page
Rural Data Portal
The Housing Assistance Council's collection of social, economic, and housing characteristics of communities in the United States.
United Nations Statistics Division
Provides a global center for data on international trade, national accounts, demographic and social statistics gathered from national and international sources
USDA Economics, Statistics and Market Information System
Over 2100 reports and datasets covering U.S. and international agriculture and related topics.
FedStats
Your jumping-off point for finding SPECIFIC agencies and sources for crime or labor or child abuse statistics.
SCIWAY
South Carolina Information Highway -- has links to county-level data.
South Carolina Demographics
South Carolina Statistical Abstract and South Carolina Community Profiles from the U.S. Census Bureau.
QuickFacts: United States
Provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more.
International Statistical Agencies
Links to the websites for statistical agencies for specific countries.

Gallup Analytics This link opens in a new window
80 Years of Gallup's Trended Data for the U.S. and 160+ countries
Limit: 1 user at a time

National Agriculture Statistics Service
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services that operates the National Survey on Drug Use and Health

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) This link opens in a new window
ICPSR offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data. Disciplines represented include political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, terrorism, health and medical care, early education, education, racial and ethnic minorities, psychology, law, substance abuse and mental health, and more.

Data.gov
Datasets from state and federal agencies
World Data Atlas
More than 2.4B time series published by more than 1K sources downloadable by country or topic
Sociometrics
downloadable data sets for social science and health; formerly Social Science Electronic Data Library
Open Data Network
Socrata's initiative designed to foster data-centered collaboration between governments and the private sector.
Healthdata.gov
Data from US Health and Human Services
Data Citation Index
Discover research data sets and data studies from a wide range of international data repositories in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Figshare
Open source repository of international research data