{"categories":[{"label":"WWW/HTTP","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/internet-www-http/5"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Provides a Python wrapper for the United States Census Bureau's API, enabling programmatic access to American Community Survey (ACS) and Summary File 1 (SF1) demographic data across multiple geographic levels.","skillfed_tags":["census-data","government-api","demographics"],"use_cases":["Retrieve demographic statistics for a specific state or county to build population reports or dashboards.","Query historical Census data across multiple years to analyze demographic trends in a geographic area.","Automate bulk extraction of housing, income, or education metrics for research or policy analysis.","Build geographic lookup tools that map FIPS codes to Census data for civic tech applications.","Integrate Census data into data warehouses or ETL pipelines for downstream analysis."],"what_it_does":"Census is a lightweight client library that abstracts the Census Bureau's HTTP API into Python method calls. It handles the low-level details of constructing API requests, managing geographic specifications (FIPS codes, state/county/tract hierarchies), and parsing responses for multiple Census datasets including ACS 5-year, 3-year, and 1-year estimates, as well as Summary File 1 and redistricting data.\n\nThe library provides convenience methods for common geographic queries (state, county, tract, congressional district, etc.) and supports year-based queries across historical datasets. It depends only on requests for HTTP communication, making it lightweight to integrate into data pipelines, demographic analysis scripts, or research tools that need programmatic Census access.","worth_installing":"Yes. Census is a stable, actively maintained wrapper with low install friction (one dependency), no known vulnerabilities, and permissive licensing. Install it if you need programmatic access to US Census data; it eliminates manual API construction and provides geographic convenience methods. The only prerequisite is obtaining a free Census API key."},"id":"census","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/census","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/census.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/census/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-05-15","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"census","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"A wrapper for the US Census Bureau's API"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":198687,"position":9722,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.8.27"}