May 27, 2021: Census Bureau - Adapting the American Community Survey Amid COVID-19

In this blog, we talk about how the pandemic has disrupted data collection for one of the nation’s most comprehensive sources of information about the U.S. population — the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). 

What Is the American Community Survey? Instead of counting the entire population once a decade like the census, the ACS surveys a sample of the population (about 3.5 million addresses) every year to create statistics for the nation, states and communities down to the “tract” or neighborhood level.