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For the United States, Esri provides advanced demographics datasets developed by Esri. These datasets may also include source material supplied by the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, MRI-Simmons, Applied Geographic Solutions (AGS), and Kalibrate. Esri also provides ArcGIS Places datasets for the United States sourced from data supplied by Data Axle and SafeGraph.

U.S. geographic boundaries include information supplied by the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), ATTOM Data, The Nielsen Co., TomTom, and Uber. Visit Where to find ArcGIS Data to learn more about using Esri Demographics and ArcGIS Places.

Dataset release dates and vintages

Esri provides the following datasets for the United States with the listed release dates and vintages.

Dataset Description Release date Vintage
Esri Updated Demographics Current-year estimates and five-year projections for more than 2,000 demographic and socioeconomic variables. This data is updated annually. June 2026 2026/2031
Urbanicity Type Designates United States population and land area (at the census block geography level) into one of 10 categories. This data is updated annually. June 2026 2026
ArcGIS Tapestry Groups residential areas into segments based on shared demographic, socioeconomic, and lifestyle characteristics. This data is updated annually. June 2026 2026
Esri Consumer Spending Insight into household budget allocation across a range of product categories, such as apparel, dining out, and travel. This data is updated annually. June 2026 2026/2031
Esri Retail Demand by Industry An extension of the Consumer Spending dataset describing commercial locations and businesses preferred across regions. This data is updated annually. June 2026 2026
Esri Market Potential Esri's methodology applied to opinion surveys about goods, services, and activities, including consumer attitudes about topics such as health care, media, and the environment. This data is updated annually. June 2026 2026
Esri Business Summary and Business Locations American businesses categorized by industrial classification codes, types of business, employee and sales information, and more. This data is updated three times per year. November 2026 August 2026
ArcGIS Places Points of Interest Dataset of American points of interest locations, such as the place-name, location, and other place details. This data is updated annually. November 2026 July 2026
American Community Survey (ACS) Five-year rolling summaries from the U.S. Census Bureau's continuous, nationwide survey of Puerto Rican and U.S. households, providing ongoing data about population, households, housing, and more. This data is updated annually. June 2026 2020-2024 (rolling)
Census 2020 and Census 2010 Information about Puerto Rican and U.S. population, families, group quarters, households, housing (occupancy and tenure), age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. Esri supplements and validates census-derived data with additional geographies and variables. This data is updated decennially. June 2026 2020, 2010, 2000
Crime Indexes Aggregated information about crime incidents reported by most U.S. law enforcement jurisdictions; provides an overview of the relative risk of specific crime types. This data is updated annually. June 2026 2026A
Traffic Counts Current, extensive U.S. traffic dataset for trade analysis, routing, or mathematical modeling. This data is updated quarterly. June 2026 Q1 2026

Settlement points

Esri's American settlement points use U.S. Census/ TIGER 2025 block points.

Location accuracy

The U.S. ArcGIS Places datasets use geographic point data derived from latitude-longitude coordinates. Most locations can be located to rooftop or street centerline accuracy, but some can only be placed to city or ZIP/postal code centroid-level accuracy. Therefore, not all points have an exact location.

Available geographies

Esri's United States geographic boundaries consist of legal, administrative, postal, statistical, and tribal boundaries and geometric tessellations. To learn about the structure and boundaries used in Esri's U.S. and Puerto Rican geography levels, see A guide to Esri U.S. geography.

The following tables provide the geographic boundaries available for the United States for the current and previous release dates.

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See Puerto Rico Geography levels for comparable geographic boundaries.

Note:

All U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line geodatabases have been altered to better align with Esri basemaps.

The following are the 2026 geographic boundaries available for the United States datasets:

Geography type | Vintage

Geography level

Feature count

Legal/Administrative | U.S. Census/TIGER 2025

United States (US)

1

State (ST)

51

Congressional Districts (CD)

436

County or (statistical) County Equivalent (CY) ¹

3,144

Elementary School Districts (ED)

1,971

Secondary School Districts (SD)

478

Unified School Districts (UD)

10,858

State Legislative Districts - Upper Chamber (SU)

1,953

State Legislative Districts - Lower Chamber (SL)

4,835

Tribal | U.S. Census/TIGER 2025

American Indian Tribal Subdivisions (TS)

484

Tribal Census Tracts (TT)

493

American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Areas (TH)

867

Tribal Block Groups (TB)

935

Statistical | The Nielsen Co. /2025-26

Designated Market Areas (DM)

210

Statistical | ATTOM Data /Q3

Neighborhoods (AN)

27,553

Statistical | The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)/July 2023

Core Based Statistical Areas (CB)

925

Combined Statistical Area (CA)

181

Statistical | U.S. Census/TIGER 2025

Public Use Microdata Areas (PM)

2,462

Census Tract (TR)

84,112

Block Group (BG)

239,239

Mixed | U.S. Census/TIGER 2025

Places (PL)

  • Incorporated Places are Legal/Administrative.

  • Census-designated Places (CDP) are Statistical.

32,056

County Subdivisions (CS)

35,403

Geometric/Repeating Geometric/ Tessellation

H3 Hexagon—Resolution 2 (H2)

170

H3 Hexagon—Resolution 3 (H3)

936

H3 Hexagon—Resolution 4 (H4)

5,814

H3 Hexagon—Resolution 5 (H5)

38,408

H3 Hexagon—Resolution 6 (H6)

261,327

H3 Hexagon—Resolution 7 (H7)

1,802,706

Postal | TomTom/Q2 2025

Residential ZIP Codes (ZP)

32,183

Postal | U.S. Census/TIGER 2025

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZC)

33,642

Note:

¹ Census Areas in Alaska are Statistical and treated as county-equivalents.

Visualize demographic data variables

The data browser is an interface to help you visualize and explore the data categories and analysis variables available in Esri Demographics. See Explore data variables to learn more about this visualization tool.

Related links

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