{"id":2158522,"date":"2023-11-15T10:58:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T18:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2158522"},"modified":"2023-11-15T10:58:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T18:58:52","slug":"updates-coming-to-american-community-survey-layers-in-arcgis-living-atlas-december-2023","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-online\/announcements\/updates-coming-to-american-community-survey-layers-in-arcgis-living-atlas-december-2023","title":{"rendered":"Updates coming to American Community Survey layers in ArcGIS Living Atlas (December 2023)"},"author":7031,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37101,23851,22941],"tags":[31341,42641,40161,23571],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551],"class_list":["post-2158522","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-data-management","category-mapping","tag-acs","tag-arcgis-online","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","tag-whats-new","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":7031,"user_firstname":"Julia","user_lastname":"Holtzclaw","nickname":"Julia Holtzclaw","user_nicename":"juliah_esri","display_name":"Julia Holtzclaw","user_email":"JHoltzclaw@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:19:08","user_description":"Julia Holtzclaw is a Senior Product Engineer on Esri's Demographic Data Development team. When not exploring new ways to map data, she's out walking with her pups or enjoying a cup of espresso - or two.","user_avatar":""}],"short_description":"In early December 2023, the Living Atlas Policy Maps team updates the ACS layers in Living Atlas with new data from the US Census.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

The Living Atlas Policy Maps team maintains\u202fa set of free layers<\/a>\u202fthat containing a wealth of data from the U.S. Census Bureau\u2019s\u202fAmerican Community Survey (ACS)<\/a>. In early December 2023, Census will release the newest ACS data for their 2018-2022 five-year estimates. Within days of that release, the Living Atlas Policy Maps team will refresh the ACS layers already available in Living Atlas with this new update from Census. Maps and apps that already use these layers will automatically display the most recent Census ACS data.<\/p>\n

The\u202fCensus ACS layers in Living Atlas<\/a>\u202fcover a wide range of topics on population, income, education, health insurance, language, race and ethnicity, and more. These layers contain data for states, counties, and census tracts. More than 100 layers are available, each focusing on a specific topic. Each topic\u2019s layer is hosted as both\u202fboundaries and centroids<\/a>\u202ffor your spatial analysis, mapping, charting and visualization. These layers are\u202ffree\u202fto use and can be downloaded to your local drive as needed.<\/p>\n

The data is made available in ArcGIS Online as hosted feature layers, only requiring an internet connection to use them. Through ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, you can easily add these layers into your maps and analysis in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro. You can also use them within applications, Dashboards, ArcGIS StoryMaps, Insights, Business Analyst, and many other ArcGIS tools.<\/p>\n

Layer Enhancements and Changes<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Census Attribute Availability:<\/strong><\/p>\n

We added a layer called Specific Asian Groups<\/a> a few years ago enable users to map groups such as Filipino, Korean, and Asian Indian. This year, Census is restructuring Table B02018<\/em><\/strong> to include an additional five groups: Mien, Singaporean, Sikh, Kazakh, and Uzbek. The entire table is being restructured, therefore when you map groups\/attributes that were available previously, their field name will change. We suggest reviewing and updating any maps using this layer to reflect the new fields.<\/p>\n

Census Boundary Changes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is an additional geographic change for the state of Connecticut, rather than a data content change. Connecticut has worked with the Census Bureau to better align their counties to their own regional planning entities. This allows the state to better coordinate activities and services for their constituents. Connecticut counties (known locally as \u201cplanning regions\u201d) are going from 8 to 9 total. All Connecticut counties and all tracts within these new counties will have a new FIPS code<\/em><\/strong> whose first five digits reflect the new county. For those of you who are familiar with Connecticut, your maps will look different. If you have any filters or queries on the FIPS or NAME fields, they will need to be updated with the new data. However, your maps using Living Atlas layers will have the most updated boundaries and data values.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2161122,"id":2161122,"title":"CTchange","filename":"CTchange.png","filesize":14675,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/11\/CTchange.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-online\/announcements\/updates-coming-to-american-community-survey-layers-in-arcgis-living-atlas-december-2023\/ctchange","alt":"","author":"7031","description":"","caption":"New Connecticut counties locally known as planning regions compared to previous counties overlaid in black.","name":"ctchange","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2158522,"date":"2023-11-15 02:01:09","modified":"2023-11-15 02:07:57","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":478,"height":370,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/11\/CTchange-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/11\/CTchange.png","medium-width":337,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/11\/CTchange.png","medium_large-width":478,"medium_large-height":370,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/11\/CTchange.png","large-width":478,"large-height":370,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/11\/CTchange.png","1536x1536-width":478,"1536x1536-height":370,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/11\/CTchange.png","2048x2048-width":478,"2048x2048-height":370,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/11\/CTchange.png","card_image-width":478,"card_image-height":370,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/11\/CTchange.png","wide_image-width":478,"wide_image-height":370}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Boundary Updates\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n