The U.S. Census Bureau will begin an embargo on the 2024 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates starting September 9, 2025, at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. The embargoed data will be publicly released on September 11.
The ACS collects information about people and housing in the United States, including topics such as language spoken at home, education, commuting patterns, employment status, mortgage and rent details, income levels, poverty rates, and health insurance coverage. It remains the only source of local estimates for most of its more than forty topics.
The upcoming one-year statistics will be accessible to embargo subscribers for all states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, congressional districts, metropolitan statistical areas, and other regions with populations of at least 65,000. Embargo access will last from Tuesday morning on September 9 until just after midnight on Thursday, September 11.
Wire services and distribution networks are not allowed to share news stories or data files under embargo before the public release time. Additional details about these rules can be found in the Census Bureau’s embargo policy. After the embargo lifts at 10 a.m. ET on September 11, all data products—including those available through data.census.gov and related tools—will become publicly accessible.
Registration for embargo access is available online at https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/embargoed_releases.
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