Data Resources Guide: Statistics by Subject

N.C. Dept. of Agriculture Statistics

• Census of Agriculture
• County Data
• County Estimates
• Monthly Farm Reports
• 2023 N.C. Agricultural Statistics

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

• Agricultural Statistics Annual, National Agricultural Statistics Service
• North Carolina Data
• Data Products
• Quick Stats

Historical

• Census of Agriculture Historical Archive (1840 - 2012)
• N.C. Dept. of Agriculture Statistics (1940 - present)

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U.S. Census Bureau

• Building Permits Survey (1995-present)

• Data Visualization Tool (1990-present)

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Current

• U.S. Census Bureau
  • census.data.gov
• StatsAmerica
  • North Carolina
• Census Reporter  (Northwestern University)

Historical 

• LINC: Log Into North Carolina, NC State Data Center
• N.C. Census Data (1960-1980) N.C. Digital Collections, State Library of N.C.
• Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses From 1790-2000
• Social Explorer
• U.S. Census Bureau
  • ​​Decennial Censuses (1790-2020)
  • Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970
  • Statistical Abstract Series (1889-2012)
• City and County Data Book (1947-2007), Hathi Trust

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Annie E. Casey Foundation

• Data By Topic
• Data By Location
• Kids Count Data Center

N.C. Child

• County Data

N.C. Dept. of Health and Human Services

• Early Childhood Data
• North Carolina Early Childhood Integrated Data System Reporting

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services

• Data & Research

• Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System

• Child Maltreatment

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N.C. Dept. of Public Safety

• Statistics
• Adult Corrections
  • Statistical Reports (2014-)
• Juvenile Justice 
  • Data/Statistics/Reports

U.S. Dept. of Justice

• Bureau of Justice Statistics
  • Census of Jails
  • Historical Corrections Statistics in the United States, 1850-1984
  • Publications and Products
• Federal Bureau of Prisons Statistics
• Federal Bureau of Investigations
  • Crime Data Explorer
  • Hate Crime Statistics
  • Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics, FBI (1996-2019)

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Missouri State Data Center

• CAPS: Circular Area Profiling System

N.C. State Data Center, N.C. Office of State and Budget Management

• LINC: Log Into North Carolina
• Population Estimates and Projections

StatsAmerica, Indiana Research Center and University, Kelley School of Business)

U.S. Census Bureau

• Current Population Survey
• data.census.gov

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FRED Economic Data, Federal Reserve Bank

Federal Reserve Archive, FRASER

• Annual Statistical Digest (1971 - 2000)
• Banking Statistics  (1896 - 1955)

Bureau of Economic Analysis

• BEA Data
• BEARFACTS
• Industry Facts
• Regional Economic Accounts
• Survey of Current Business (1921 - present)

Missouri Economic Research and Information Center

• Cost of Living by State

N.C. Dept. of Revenue

• Sales Tax (1997 - present)

Prices and Wages by Decade: University Missouri Libraries

U.S. Census Bureau

• Building Permits Survey
• Business & Economy
  • Historical Data (1992 - 2012)
• County Business Patterns
• Survey of Business Owners and Self-Employed Persons
• Economic Census

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Division of Non-Public Education, N.C. DOA

• Home School Closings (2018-present)
• Home School Statistics (1988-present)
• Private School Statistics, Grade K-12 Schools (1961 - present)

National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Statistics

• Fast facts
• Literacy- (US compared to other countries)
• School District Mapping and Demographics

N.C. Community Colleges

• Statistical Reports (2010 - present)

N.C. Department of Public Instruction

• Data & Reports
• EDDIE: The Educational Directory and Demographical Information Exchange
• School Report Cards
  • Archived School Report Cards (2001 - 2013)
  • Data Sources and Information Guide
  • NC School Report Cards

N.C. Division of Child Development and Early Education, NCDHHS (Daycares)

• Child Care Statistical Report (2004 - present)
• N.C. Child Care Snapshot

U.S. Dept. of Education

• Data & Statistics
• U.S. Civil Rights Data Collection

University of North Carolina (Higher Education)

• Stats, Data, & Reports

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N.C. State Board of Elections

• Absentee Data
• Election Results Dashboard
• Historical Election Results Data (2000 - present)
• Voter History Data (2012 - present)
• Voter Registration Data 

Federal Election Commission (FEC)

• Campaign Finance Statistics (1975 - present)

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Environmental Protection Agency

• Air data--provides data back to 1980 in down to city level in some cases.
• Chemical Data Reporting
• Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) 

N.C. Dept. of Environmental Quality

• Division of Coastal Management
  • Coastal Management Science and Data
• Division of Air Quality
  • Air Quality Reports 
  • Emissions Report
• Division of Marine Fisheries
  • Fisheries Statistics
• Division of Waste Management
  • Recycling Data, Annual Reports and Publications
  • Waste Management Science, Data and Reports
• Division of Water Resources
  • Data, Statistics, & Maps
• National Wetlands Inventory, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
  • Data by State
  • Wetlands Data Layer
  • Wetlands Mapper
• Science on a Sphere (NOAA)

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N.C. Association of County Commissioners

• County Budget and Tax

N.C. Dept. of Revenue

• Reports and Statistics

• Statistical Abstract of North Carolina Taxes

N.C. Dept. of State Treasurer

• Financial Analysis Tools & Reports

N.C. Office of State Budget and Management

• Certified Budget
• Prior Certified Budgets (2003 - )

U.S. Census Bureau

• Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances (1983 - present)
• Annual Survey of State Government Finances (1992 - present)
• Census of Governments (1992 - 2017)
• Public Sector

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COVID-19

• CDC
  • U.S. States Data
  • U.S County Data
  • U.S. Testing Data 
• NCDHHS
  • North Carolina Respiratory Virus Summary Dashboard
• U.S. Census Bureau
  • Household Pulse Survey Data Tables
• USA Spending
  • COVID-19 Spending Data 

Centers for Disease Control

• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
• CDC Wonder: Online Databases
• Data & Statistics (Historical data and statistics)
• Vital Statistics (1890-2003)

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, (CMS.gov)

• Data Compendium
• Medicare.gov
  • Datasets
• National Vital Statistics System
  • Birth Data
• WONDER (Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research)

N.C. Dept. of Health and Human Services

• N.C Division of Aging
  • Data Reports
• N.C .Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services
• N.C. State Center for Health Statistics
  • Archived Publications -by title/date (back to 1915)
  • N.C. Health Atlas
  • N.C. Health Data Query System
  • Publications by Topic
  • Statistics and Reports- Vital Statistics

N.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner -Deaths due to injury or violence, as well as natural deaths that are suspicious, unusual, or unattended by a medical professional.

State Library of North Carolina

• N.C. Digital Collections
  • Health Statistics (1914-current)

U.S. Census Bureau

• Health Insurance
• Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE)

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U.S. Census Bureau

• American Housing Survey
• Housing Vacancies and Homeownership 
• New Residential Construction
• Residential Improvements and Repairs, Historical Data

U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development

• Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R)
  • HUD User Dataset
  •  Assisted Housing, National and Local Data

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Dept. of Public Instruction

• State Salary Schedules, Public Schools

Economic Policy Institute

• State of Working America Data Library

N.C. Dept. of Commerce

• Labor & Economic Analysis Division
  • D4: Demand Driven Data Delivery System
• Workforce WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) Reports 

N.C. Dept. of Labor

• Occupational Safety & Health, Statistical Reports

N.C. Office of State Human Resources

• Employee Statistics
• N.C. State Employment Government Statistics (as of July 2017)

Prices and Wages by Decade: University Missouri Libraries (1700's -present)

U.S. Census Bureau

• Equal Employment Opportunity Tabulation
• Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics
• Quarterly Workforce Indicator

U.S. Dept. of Labor

• Statistics
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Databases, Tables & Calculators by Subject
• State Occupational Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (in cooperation with N.C. Dept. of Labor)

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N.C. Judicial Branch

• Court Data

National Center for Education Statistics

• Academic and School Library Statistics

N.C. Public Library Statistics, State Library of NC

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Division of Marine Fisheries

• Fisheries Statistics

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Census Bureau

• ACS Migration/Geographic Mobility Data Tables (2000-2019)
• Geographic Mobility: 2019-2020
• Great Migration, 1910-1970
• Historical Migration/Geographic Mobility Tables, Current Population Survey (1948-2020)
• State-to-State Migration Flows, American Community Survey

Dept. of Homeland Security

• Immigration Data

IRS

• SOI Tax Stats - County to County Migration Data Files (2004-2011)
• SOI Tax Stats, NC Migration (2004-2011)
• SOI Tax Stats, US Migration (2004-2011)

Migration Policy Institute

• State Immigration Data Profiles
• Maps

University of Wisconsin

• Net Migration Estimates, Patterns for U.S. Counties (1950's -2000s)

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Council on Foreign Relations

• Demographics of the U.S. Military

Department of Defense

• Defense Casualty Analysis System
  • Summary Data
    • U.S. Military Casualties: Conflicts 1775-1996
    • U.S. Active Duty Military Deaths: 1980-2021
    • U.S. Active Duty Military Deaths: Race/Ethnicity Summary
• Military One Source: Data, Research, and Statistics 
  • Military Community Demographics 

U.S. Dept. of Veteran Affairs

• National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics
  • State/Territories Summary Reports

U.S. NAVY

• A Guide to U. S. Military Casualty Statistics

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N.C. Center for Geographic Information and Analysis

• N.C. One Map

N.C. Dept. of Commerce

• AccessNC

N.C. Rural Center

• Data Visualizations
• Latest Research

N.C. State Data Center, NC OSBM

• Facts & Figures by County Geography
• LINC: Log Into North Carolina
• State Demographer Data (Estimates, projections, and more)

U.S. Census Bureau

• QuickFacts 

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U.S. Census Bureau

• Historical County Level Poverty Estimates Tool (1960-2010)
• Income and Poverty in the United States: 2019
• Poverty thresholds
• Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE)​
  • Interactive Data Too 

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National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, Census Bureau

North Carolina State Parks

Visitor Use Statistics, National Park Service

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The Association of Religion Data Archive (ARDA)

U.S. Religious Landscape Study

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National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

• State-By-State
• Statistics

N.C. Coalition to end Homelessness

• PIT (Point-in-Time) Count Data

RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network)

• Statistics

U.S. Census Bureau

• Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates 

U.S. Health and Human Services

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) 

U.S. Dept. of Justice

• Hate Crime Statistics

U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness

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N.C. Broadband, N.C. Dept. of Commerce

• Broadband Survey Dashboards
• Data & Reports

Pew Research Center

• Internet &Technology

Nielsen 

• Quarantined Consumers TV and Social Media

U.S. Census Bureau

• Computer and Internet Use
• E-Commerce Statistics (E-Stats)

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Federal Aviation Administration

• Data & Research

N.C. Dept. of Transportation

• Crash Data and Maps
• N.C. Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Data Tool
• N.C. Work Zone Statistics

N.C. SBI

• N.C. Traffic Stop Statistics 

U.S. Dept. of Transportation

• Bureau of Transportation Statistics
  • Statistical Products and Data
• Federal Highway Administration
  • Census Transportation Planning Products (with US Census Bureau)

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U.S. Statistical Abstracts (1878-2012)

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA)

• Climate Analyses and Statistics
• National Weather Service
  • Severe Weather Statistics
  • Weather Related Fatality and Injury Statistics

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