Information about what's new in Esri Demographics is provided below.
The October 2025 release includes updates to standard and advanced demographics. See What's new in ArcGIS Places for details about places and points of interest updates.
For in-depth information about what was updated for each country, see the Change log - October 2025. Change logs for previous releases are also available.
Data product name change
This release, you may notice that the product name has been updated from Esri Location Data to ArcGIS Data.
Standard demographics
This release includes updates to Esri standard demographics datasets sourced from data supplied by Michael Bauer Research GmbH. Changes include an updated data vintage to 2025 (2024 for Unemployed Population) and added Local geography names. Some datasets have new attributes for 2025 or removed attributes from the previous release. See the individual country pages or the Change log - October 2025 for more information.
Africa
Esri updated the following datasets for Africa—Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
North America
Esri updated the following datasets for North America—Anguilla, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands
Advanced demographics
The October 2025 release includes updates to advanced demographics for Canada, France, Puerto Rico, and the United States.
Canada
Esri updated the following datasets, geography levels, and related essential vocabulary terms for Canada:
- Canadian geographies were updated for 2025. Settlement points were updated to fall within dissemination areas.
- ArcGIS Places - Canada—Refer to What's new in ArcGIS Places for information about the updated Canadian Business Locations and Points of Interest datasets.
- CensusPlus—Vintage 2021.
- DaytimePop—Vintage 2025.
- DemoStats—Vintage 2025 (includes historical data from 2020 and forecasts for 2028, 2030, and 2035). Refinements in this release include updates to total population estimates, improved immigration projections, and revised labor force figures that align unemployment rates with recent trends.
- DemoStats Trends—Vintage 2025 (includes estimates from 2016 to 2025 and forecasts from 2026 to 2045).
- HouseholdSpend—Vintage 2025. Number of new attributes: 139 HouseholdSpend (2025); number of attributes no longer available: 179 HouseholdSpend (2024).
- PRIZM®—Vintage 2025. This dataset was renamed from PRIZM® Market Segmentation. The 2025 update introduces refinements to segment assignments, shifting from historical consistency to current demographic fit, reflecting Canada's evolving population more precisely. Seven segments were reassigned to new lifestage groups to reflect changes in household composition. Urbanity classifications were reinforced for geographic authenticity.
- ShoppingCentres—Vintage 2025.
France
Esri updated the following information for the French advanced demographic dataset:
- Release date October 2025; vintage various (2025 through 2011).
- Number of new attributes: 7 Business (2023); 5 Households (2021); 1 Housing (2021); 3 Population (2023, 2022, 2021).
- Number of attributes no longer available: 7 Business (2021); 16 Households (2019, 2008); 1 Housing (2019); 4 Language-Immigration (2008); 8 Population (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2013, 2008).
Puerto Rico
Esri updated the Points of Interest ArcGIS Places dataset for Puerto Rico. Refer to What's new in ArcGIS Places for information about this update.
United States
Esri updated the following datasets for the United States:
- ArcGIS Places - United States—Refer to What's new in ArcGIS Places for information about the updated Business Locations, Business Summary, and Points of Interest datasets.
- Traffic Counts—Release date October 2025; vintage Q3 2025.