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Missouri Racial Demographics in the 2010 Census Census 2020 data are not yet available, but let's take a look back at what Missouri looked like ten years ago, starting with racial demographics.
Uninsured in Missouri, Before and After ACA More than five years have passed since the Affordable Care Act was enacted, and we now have an opportunity to compare rates of uninsured persons across Missouri between 2013 and 2018. The improvement is remarkable.
Missouri Voter Turnout Changes, 2000-2016 Many people will ask: How exactly did Missouri go from supporting Democratic governors by double digits to a trifecta of Republican presidents, senators, and governors in a little over a decade?
Women's Role in the Missouri Workforce Although Women's History Month has come and gone, it's important to continue thinking about the various trends facing women at work. Here, we examine workforce participation.

Welcome to the Missouri Census Data Center

The Missouri Census Data Center (MCDC) is a cooperative program among state agencies in Missouri and the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Its purpose is to enhance awareness of and access to public data, especially Census Bureau products.

The MCDC data archive, which includes many national collections as well as Missouri-specific data, is one of the premier sites in the country for accessing census and other public, machine-readable demographic and geographic data. Data may be accessed directly, via the public machine readable data archive, or by using one of the custom applications.

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MCDC News and Data Updates

Missouri Racial Demographics in Census 2010

About a year ago, the Missouri Census Data Center and MSDIS jointly published a story map detailing just a few of the many ways that Missouri benefits from a complete and accurate census. While the official counting period for Census 2020 has only just recently come to a close, we thought it would be interesting to take a […]

Data Updates (Spring 2021)

We’ve updated many of our population-related applications and datasets over the past couple of months. The CAPS ACS application now references 2015-2019 ACS data. Geocodes lookup and ZIP codes lookup applications updated with 2015-2019 ACS data. New Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) data for 2019. Our Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment data […]

Missouri’s Uninsured Population, Before and After ACA

In March 2015, the U.S. Census released the 2013 data collected by the Small Area Health Insurance Estimates Program (SAHIE). The SAHIE data is a valuable reference that provides annual estimates of health insurance coverage for every county in the United States. That year, MCDC published a map showing insurance coverage rates for Missouri counties. […]

ACS 2015-2019 5-year Data Is Here

We now have the 5-year ACS 2015-2019 data available on our website. The ACS Profiles and ACS Trends applications include the new data. Both profiles and base tables (aka summary or detailed tables) are also available in SAS/Dexter format in our data archive at acs2019. Please let us know if you encounter any issues with the data. […]

Change in Missouri Voter Turnout, 2000-2016

With this month’s MCDC/GRC story map, we explore the changes in voter turnout across the state between presidential elections to shed insight on how Missouri has gone from purple to bright red in just a few short years. The map, designed by Jefferson Daubitz of the Missouri Spatial Data Information Service (MSDIS), examines the question […]

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