Population by Race and Ethnicity (ACS)

How many people live in each Georgia community, broken down by race and ethnicity - American Community Survey 5-year estimates down to the census-tract level.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
Year coverage: 2020–2024
Updated: annual
Version: 1.0.0
Schema hash: b2023587a4bb

Detail levels available

StateCounty · defaultDistrict

Overview

Population counts by race and ethnicity from the American Community Survey 5-year estimates (detailed table B03002, Hispanic or Latino Origin by Race), for Georgia at state, county, school district, and census tract geography, vintages 2020-2024. Categories are mutually exclusive (Hispanic of any race plus the not-Hispanic alone groups) and sum exactly to the total, matching the platform's canonical demographic vocabulary.

Row grain: One row per year, county_fips, district_code, tract_geoid, demographic.

Key metric

population_count — Population Count (count)

The single headline value most answers want.

JSON schema →Data contract (YAML) →

Variables

Every column in the fact table. The code is the exact field name the API returns.

Column	Type	Unit	Range	Null?	Description
`year`Year	integer	—	—	no	ACS 5-year vintage END year: 2024 covers the pooled 2020-2024 survey period. Consecutive vintages overlap. Full description▾ ACS 5-year vintage END year: 2024 covers the pooled 2020-2024 survey period. Consecutive vintages overlap.
`county_fips`County FIPS	string	—	—	yes	5-digit county FIPS code (state 13 + county). Populated only on county-level rows. Full description▾ 5-digit county FIPS code (state 13 + county). Populated only on county-level rows. Joins counties; adds its label columns.
`district_code`District Code	string	—	—	yes	GCD school district code (FK to the education districts dimension). Populated only on district-level rows - Census unified-school-district estimates mapped onto the ~180 standard districts via the dimension's district_census_id. Full description▾ GCD school district code (FK to the education districts dimension). Populated only on district-level rows - Census unified-school-district estimates mapped onto the ~180 standard districts via the dimension's district_census_id. Joins districts; adds its label columns.
`tract_geoid`Tract GEOID	string	—	—	yes	11-digit census tract GEOID (2020 boundaries). Populated only on tract-level rows. Full description▾ 11-digit census tract GEOID (2020 boundaries). Populated only on tract-level rows. Joins tracts; adds its label columns.
`demographic`Demographic	string	—	—	no	Race/ethnicity category (FK to the demographics dimension). Mutually exclusive B03002 mapping: 'hispanic' is Hispanic or Latino of any race; every other category is the not-Hispanic alone group; 'all' is total population. Categories sum exactly to 'all'. Full description▾ Race/ethnicity category (FK to the demographics dimension). Mutually exclusive B03002 mapping: 'hispanic' is Hispanic or Latino of any race; every other category is the not-Hispanic alone group; 'all' is total population. Categories sum exactly to 'all'. 9 allowed values▾ `all` `asian` `black` `hispanic` `multiracial` `native_american` `other` `pacific_islander` `white` Joins demographics; adds its label columns.
`population_count`Population Count	integer	count	—	yes	Estimated residents in the category. Full description▾ ACS 5-year estimate of the number of residents in the demographic category (survey estimate, not a full count - see population_count_moe).
`population_count_moe`Population Count Moe	integer	count	—	yes	90 percent margin of error for population_count, as published. Never the headline metric. Full description▾ 90 percent margin of error for population_count, as published. Never the headline metric.

Filters

Query parameters the fact endpoint accepts. Comma-separated values are OR within a parameter; multiple parameters AND together.

Parameter	Kind	Allowed values	Notes
`year`	year_exact	any value	—
`year_min`	year_range	any value	—
`year_max`	year_range	any value	—
`detail`	detail	`countiesdistrictsstatestracts`	enum-enforced, default: counties
`district_code`	foreign_key	any value	multi-value
`county_fips`	foreign_key	any value	multi-value
`tract_geoid`	foreign_key	any value	multi-value
`demographic`	foreign_key	9 allowed values▾ `all` `asian` `black` `hispanic` `multiracial` `native_american` `other` `pacific_islander` `white`	multi-value, enum-enforced
`district_type`	dimension_attribute	7 allowed values▾ `commission_charter` `resa` `standard` `state_agency` `state_charter` `state_school` `state_special`	multi-value, enum-enforced
`demographic_category`	dimension_attribute	12 allowed values▾ `aggregate` `disability` `economic_status` `esol` `foster_care` `gender` `grade` `homeless_status` `migrant_status` `military` `race` `sped`	multi-value, enum-enforced

Example requests

Run these against the base URL — they return live data.

All rows (first page), counties level

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/census/population_by_race"

counties data for 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/census/population_by_race?year=2024"

One district (code 660), 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/census/population_by_race?district_code=660&year=2024&detail=districts"

One county (FIPS 13121), 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/census/population_by_race?county_fips=13121&year=2024&detail=counties"

Download 2024 as CSV

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/census/population_by_race?year=2024&format=csv"

Notes & limitations

NULL handling

Suppressed cells (too few students to report) are NULL, never zero.
Zero is a real, reported value.

Limitations

Race categories are mutually exclusive and sum exactly to the 'all' row: 'hispanic' is Hispanic or Latino of any race, and every other category is the not-Hispanic 'alone' group ('other' = some other race alone; 'multiracial' = two or more races). A NULL population_count_moe next to a present estimate means a controlled estimate (fixed to official population totals, no sampling error published) - it is not suppression of the estimate itself. Census race/ethnicity is self-reported and differs from administrative race capture in school and justice data - related, not equivalent. ACS 5-year period estimates: the year column is the vintage END year and each estimate pools five years of survey responses (2024 = 2020-2024). Consecutive vintages share about 80% of their sample, so the series is heavily smoothed - never difference overlapping vintages as if they were annual change. Estimates are survey-based and carry 90% margins of error (the *_moe columns); tract-level margins can be large relative to the estimate. All levels serve vintages 2020-2024 only, on 2020-vintage tract boundaries. State rows have NULL county_fips, district_code, and tract_geoid; county rows carry only county_fips, district rows only district_code, tract rows only tract_geoid. District rows cover the ~180 standard (city/county) districts only: the Census publishes school-district estimates at unified school district geography, which has no codes for charter schools, RESAs, or state agencies, and its few Census-only districts (e.g. the Fort Stewart military district) have no GCD district code and are dropped.