United States 2020 Census API

An unofficial API for various US 2020 Census data

File Information

census.py Created a selenium webscraper using the usa 2020 census from census.gov

census_dictionary.py A python dictionary of the extracted census values for each state

server.py Created a local API on localhost:5000 for accessing the data for each state

states.py A list of urls for each state on census.gov

xpaths.py xpath values for various elements used for accessing data on the census webpage

Routes

API routes where name is the name of a state. Note: the first letter must be capitalized. Example: Alabama

• return all the data for the state: /state?=name
• get an overview of data for the state /overview?=name
• get the population data for the state /population?=name
• get the income data for the state /income?=name
• get the education data for the state /education?=name
• get the employment data for the state /employment?=name
• get the housing data for the state /housing?=name
• get the health data for the state /health?=name
• get the economy data for the state /economy?=name
• get the family data for the state /family?=name
• get the race data for the state /race?=name

Dependencies

Download ChromeDriver and replace chromedriver.exe with the version that matches your chrome version

install the following using pip

$ pip install selenium
$ pip install flask
$ pip install pprintpp

Deployment

To test out the webscraper run the following

$ python census.py

To simply use the API run the following

$ python server.py

TODO

• put the datasets into a csv file format