Social Science Data and Statistics Sources

This is the new platform for accessing recent Census Bureau data. FYI, the Census Bureau stopped releasing new data in American FactFinder (AFF) at the end of June 2019 and transitioned to data.census.gov for data releases formerly on AFF. AFF will remain as an archive system for data and functionality that are not yet available in data.census.gov until early 2020.

Browse data sets by topic, or search the data catalog. You can limit your results to geospatial data sets. Federal and non-federal (state, county, municipal, etc.) data sources are available.
Features: Download data in a variety of formats including tables, geospatial dataset, and APIs. Users can also harvest metadata.

The FBI has gathered crime statistics from law enforcement agencies across the nation that have voluntarily participated in the since 1930. These data have been published each year, and since 1958, have been available in the publication Crime in the United States (CIUS). As a supplement to CIUS, the FBI, in cooperation with the Bureau of Justice Statistics, provides this site that allows users to build their own customized data tables. The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program collects statistics on violent crime (murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) and property crime (burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft).
Features: Tables, Exportable into Excel; details on methods and how to use the database. By using the table-building tool, users can specify offenses, locality (city, county, state), and year(s).

FRED compiles macro data from a variety of government and other sources. FRED is a database of over 383,000 economic time series from 82 sources. St. Louis Fed provides even more historical economic resources.
Features: Charts and graphs, exportable into Excel and text files.

Housed at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard. Claims to host the world's largest collection of social science research. It holds data from many researchers and institutions in addition to Harvard.

International & U.S. immigration statistics from the Migration Policy Institute, independent think tank in Washington, DC.
Features: Export charts in CSV (comma-separated value) and maps as images, PDFs, or Tableau workbooks.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. Its mission is to collect, analyze, and disseminate essential economic information to support public and private decision making.
Features: Create your own table from available data sets (select variables); Export into Excel.