North American Demography

US CensusUS Census
( Online FAQs and email assistance, American FactFinder search engine, data extraction, County & City Data Book, Census briefs / Statistical Abstract of the United States, population estimates and projections, job announcements, and much more)
* U.S. Census Bureau Census 2010 homepage
* U.S. Census Bureau Census 2000 homepage and American FactFinder search engine
* Warren Glimpse's Census 2000 Data Access and Use homepage, CensusScope by SSDAN
* U.S. decennial census PDF printed reports for 1790-2000 censuses

IPUMS IPUMS USA

U.S. Immigration
* U.S. Census Foreign-Born Population page
* Department of Homeland Security Immigration Statistics
* Migration Information Source
* Pew Hispanic Center research topics: Immigration

Basic Tables Dynamic Report Generator (Quick way to get USA 1990 Census summary reports for an area)

Statistics Canada
(Similar to the U.S. Census in terms of offerings, information on various aspects of the Canadian population is available at this site)


(Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática (INEGI). Mexican census info and tables. Pages are in Spanish; non-speakers may consider using a free translation service such as Babelfish or Systran )

CIESIN USA Demography homepage (An impressive collection of U.S. data sources. .)

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Includes labor force statistics from the Current Population Survey

Econdata.Net

Dataplace.org ("Besides housing, federal finance, and census SF3 data, it has a neat facility for ranking areas and for mapping." )

Zipskinny.com (Census data and graphs by zip code. Also allows comparison of ZIPs on demographics, etc. ) 

Nielsen/Claritas homepage (with PRIZM ZIP Code Look-Up) PRIZM cluster descriptions (archived from 2002)


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Lastly, some dataset homepages:


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