Download U.S. population data

Choose a geographic level, a state extract or a historical collection. These files contain the same observations used in profiles, rankings, charts and comparisons.

Annual population estimates, 2020–2025

All six July 1 observations belong to Census PEP Vintage 2025. Long CSV puts each geography/year in its own row. Wide CSV puts one geography in each row with six population columns. JSON includes normalized records and supported change components.

Nationwide annual population files, Vintage 2025
Geographic levelCoverageCSV layoutJSON records
United States1 national geographyLong CSV · Wide CSVJSON
States and DC51 state/district recordsLong CSV · Wide CSVJSON
Counties and equivalents3,144 county-level recordsLong CSV · Wide CSVJSON
Incorporated cities and towns19,479 place/balance recordsLong CSV · Wide CSVJSON

Download data for one state

Choose a state or DC to download its annual totals, county equivalents and supported incorporated places in one extract. The types are identified in the file. These geographic levels overlap: adding all rows together would count residents more than once.

Alabama selected. Files cover July 1, 2020–2025.

All state and DC download links

Historical census counts and regional data

Data dictionary, citation and reproducibility

Keep the data dictionary, citation text, README and SHA-256 checksums with the downloaded observations. Every released file identifies its source product, date, measurement type and snapshot. The original Census CSVs are included in the research bundle.

Import official geographic codes as text in spreadsheets to preserve leading zeros. Quoted CSV fields do not prevent every spreadsheet from treating a code as a number. Blank uncertainty fields mean no source margin was supplied; they do not mean zero uncertainty.

Profile downloads contain the selected place's six annual observations. Ranking and directory exports contain the visible filtered page. For every row in a geographic level, choose its full dataset above. Versioned snapshot pep-2025-r1 remains fixed when a later release is published; the region view has its own version, regions-v1, and source notes.