US Census Bureau

Bring US population by state into DataOS

This guide brings US population by state (estimates from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 2024 five-year data) into DataOS.

census.gov
REST API
Government & public data

What you need

One free API key from the US Census Bureau

Who can get it

Anyone. You can request it yourself

Where data lands

A governed table in your DataOS lakehouse

Connection type

REST API

How the connection works

Source
US Census Bureau
DataOS connector
Keeps it up to date
DataOS lakehouse
Governed data product

The connector uses your Census key to ask the Census Bureau for the total population of every US state, and refreshes the table in DataOS. It only reads public data.

What's next

Ready to bring this data into DataOS?

See it in a demo

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Read the DataOS docs

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