Profile Tables
ACS profile tables contain the primary characteristics for social, economic, housing, and demographic subject areas. The topics include information about age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, school enrollment, educational attainment, ancestry, language spoken at home, ability to speak English, veteran status, income and benefits, poverty status, employment status, industry and occupation, the mortgage or rent payment, the housing value, occupants per room, and more. In addition to estimates and margins of error, the profile tables also contain percentages and percentage margins of error, which allow for comparisons across geographic areas.
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Detailed Tables
ACS detailed tables provide access to the most detailed cross-tabulations of ACS variables. The tables contain tens of thousands of estimates and margins of error in more than one thousand tables. This large data set provides the primary characteristics found in the profile tables as well as many more specified characteristics in similar topic areas. The detailed tables do not contain percentages for most data items.
Note: Beginning with 2008-2012 data, profile tables replaced detailed tables for the child population groups and parent population groups. Detailed tables will continue to be available for the total population.
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Total Population
The U.S. Census Bureau surveys persons in households and group quarters for the American Community Survey. The data for the total population contains information from all persons in the survey, while other population groups are subsets of the total sample. All data sets below contain data for nation, states, and school districts. Additional ACS products and geographic areas are available for the total population on the U.S. Census Bureau website.
Detailed Tables
2009-13 
2008-12
2007-11
2006-10
2005-09
2006-08
2005-07
2006
2005
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Child Populations
Educational researchers need data about the school-age child population. The child population groups are an annual custom product developed for NCES using the 5-year ACS data. There are demographic, social, economic, and housing data iterated for four school-age child groups.
Four iterations of children:
- all children – persons ages 0-17 and 18/19 year olds who have not graduated from high school
- children relevant to a school district (only applicable for school district geographies)
- relevant children who are enrolled in school
- relevant children who are enrolled in public school
All data sets below contain data for nation, states, and school districts.
Profile Tables
2009-13 
2008-12
2007-11
2006-10
2005-09
Detailed Tables
2007-11
2006-10
2005-09
2006-08
2005-07
2006
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Parent Populations
Another population group of interest for educational research are parents of school-age children. The parent population groups are custom product developed for NCES once every five years. There are demographic, social, and economic data iterated for four parent groups.
Four iterations of parents:
- all parents of children (as defined in custom child product – persons ages 0-17 and 18/19 year olds who have not graduated from high school)
- parents of children who are relevant to a school district (only applicable for school district geographies)
- parents of relevant children who are enrolled in school
- parents of relevant children who are enrolled in public school
All data sets below contain data for nation, states, and school districts.
Profile Tables
2006-10
Detailed Tables
2006-10
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School Population
NCES acquired approximately 22,000 school attendance boundaries from more than 500 public school districts for the 2009-2010 school year as a pilot research project. The boundaries were used to create a special tabulation of ACS data. This product consists of four profile tables with percentage estimates based on the total sample residing in the school attendance area. Unlike profile tables for other geographic areas, the school attendance boundary tabulations do not contain estimates for most data items.
Profile Tables
2006-10
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