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, Nielsen (2024-2025), TomTom (2024), and Uber. Visit Where to find Esri Location Data to learn more about using advanced 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Current-year estimates and five-year projections for more than 2,000 demographic and socioeconomic variables. Updated annually. | June 2025 | 2025/2030 | |
Designates United States population and land area (at the census block geography level) into one of 10 categories. Updated annually. | June 2025 | 2025 | |
Groups residential areas into segments based on shared demographic, socioeconomic, and lifestyle characteristics. Updated annually. Note:For 2024 segmentation data, see Esri Tapestry Segmentation. | June 2025 | 2025 | |
Insight into household budget allocation across a range of product categories, such as apparel, dining out, and travel. Updated annually. | June 2025 | 2025/2030 | |
An extension of the Consumer Spending dataset describing commercial locations and businesses preferred across regions. Updated annually. | June 2025 | 2025 | |
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. Updated annually. | June 2025 | 2025 | |
American businesses categorized by industrial classification codes, types of business, employee and sales information, and more. Updated three times per year. | June 2025 | April 2025 | |
Dataset of American points of interest locations, such as the place-name, location, and other place details. Updated annually. | June 2025 | March 2025 | |
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. Updated annually. | June 2025 | 2019-2023 (rolling) | |
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. Updated decennially. | June 2025 | 2020, 2010, 2000 | |
Aggregated information about crime incidents reported by most U.S. law enforcement jurisdictions; provides an overview of the relative risk of specific crime types. Updated annually. | June 2025 | 2024B | |
Current, extensive U.S. traffic dataset for trade analysis, routing, or mathematical modeling. Updated quarterly. | June 2025 | Q2 2025 |
Settlement points
Esri's American settlement points use U.S. Census/TIGER 2024 block points.
Base level geography
The U.S. ArcGIS Places base level geography is latitude/longitude coordinates.
Available geographies
Esri's United States geographic boundaries consist of legal/administrative, postal, statistical, and tribal boundaries and geometric tessellations. To learn about U.S. geographies, see the Understanding Esri Geography tutorial.
Use the following tables to understand the geographic boundaries available for the United States.
Note:
See Puerto Rico for comparable U.S. geographic boundaries.
Note:
All U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line geodatabases have been altered to better align with Esri basemaps.
2025 U.S. geographic boundaries
The following are the 2025 geographic boundaries available for the United States datasets:
| Geography type | Vintage | Geography level | Feature count |
|---|---|---|
Legal/Administrative | U.S. Census/TIGER 2024 | United States (US) | 1 |
51 | ||
436 | ||
3,144 | ||
Secondary School Districts (SD) | 481 | |
Elementary School Districts (ED) | 1,952 | |
Unified School Districts (UD) | 10,875 | |
State Legislative Districts - Upper Chamber (SU) | 1,951 | |
State Legislative Districts - Lower Chamber (SL) | 4,834 | |
Tribal | U.S. Census/TIGER 2024 | 484 | |
493 | ||
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Areas (TH) | 864 | |
935 | ||
Statistical | The Nielsen Co./2024-25 | 209 | |
Statistical | The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)/July 2023 | 925 | |
Statistical | U.S. Census/TIGER 2024 | 2,462 | |
84,117 | ||
239,247 | ||
Mixed | U.S. Census/TIGER 2024 |
| 32,039 |
| 35,393 | |
Geometric/Repeating Geometric/Tessellation | 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) | 261,329 | |
H3 Hexagon—Resolution 7 (H7) | 1,802,737 | |
Postal | TomTom/Q2 2024 | 32,157 |
Note:
¹ Census Areas in Alaska are Statistical and treated as county-equivalents.
2024 U.S. geographic boundaries
The following are the 2024 geographic boundaries available for the United States advanced demographics and ArcGIS Places datasets:
| Geography type | Vintage | Geography level | Database | Feature count |
|---|---|---|
Legal/Administrative | U.S. Census/TIGER 2023 | Nation | 1 |
State or State Equivalent (ST) | 51 | |
Congressional Districts (CD) | 436 | |
County or County Equivalent (CY) ¹ | 3,144 | |
Secondary School Districts | 480 | |
Elementary School Districts | 1,957 | |
Unified School Districts | 10,895 | 10,889 | |
Statistical | The Nielsen Co./2023-2024 | Designated Market Areas (DM) | 210 |
Statistical | Office of Mgt. and Budget (OMB)/July 2023 | Core Based Statistical Areas (CB) | 925 |
Statistical | U.S. Census/TIGER 2023 | Census Tract (TR) | 84,414 ² | 84,116 |
Block Group (BG) | 239,780 ³ | 239,246 | |
Mixed | U.S. Census/TIGER 2023 | Places (PL)
| 32,037 | 32,035 |
County Subdivisions (CSD)
| 35,495 | 35,403 | |
Postal | TomTom/Q2 2023 | Residential ZIP Codes (ZP) | 32,080 | 32,134 |
All ZIP Codes | 40,956 |
Note:
¹ Census Areas in Alaska are Statistical and treated as county-equivalents.
² Esri did not include one all-water Census Tract (TR) in Connecticut in the database to maintain the same overall database count as TIGER 2020.
³ Esri did not include one all-water Block Group (BG) in Connecticut in the database to maintain the same overall database count as TIGER 2020.
Visualize demographic data variables
The data browser is an interface to help you visualize and explore the data categories and analysis variables available in this country or region's advanced demographics. See Explore data variables to learn more about this visualization tool.
Related links
Refer to the following content:
- 2025 Esri U.S. Demographics Release Notes (PDF)
- 2024 Esri U.S. Demographics Release Notes (PDF)
- 2025-2030 Esri U.S. Data Catalog (XLS)
- 2024-2029 Esri U.S. Data Catalog (XLS)
- 2025 Esri new variables by dataset (XLS)
- 2024 ArcGIS Business Analyst Pro and Enterprise demographic and business data variable list (XLS)
- U.S. Data Variable Definitions (XLS)
Note:
- For information about reports, see Esri Reports.
- For information about purchasing Esri U.S. datasets as stand-alone content, contact datasales@esri.com or Buy Esri Data directly from the store.
- For information about the number of credits needed to run reports, see the Credits by capability topic or the ArcGIS Location Platform Pricing topic (scroll to Business Search, Infographics, and Reports).