U.S. Census, BLS, HUD, NCES, election & housing-market data
Explore the datasets on pumsdata — ACS PUMS microdata, building permits, K-12 education, fair market rents, time use, household spending, presidential election results, CPI inflation, and county housing-market trends — by state and finer geographies. Pick a source below; more datasets are on the way.
The U.S. Census Bureau's 2024 ACS Public Use Microdata Sample for all 50 states, DC, and 2,462 PUMAs. Pick a state for its full demographic, economic, and housing profile — then map or cross-tabulate the underlying microdata.
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Census Building Permits Survey · Jun 2026
U.S. residential building permits
Monthly counts of new residential building permits from the U.S. Census Bureau, mapped for every state, county, metro area, and city. In Jun 2026, 130,502 housing units were authorized nationwide across 87,473 buildings (35.8% multifamily).
Click a state to see its building permits.
Drill into counties, metros, and cities — color, compare, and export — on the full interactive map.
Building permits by state
Top metro areas
By units permitted in the last 12 months.
- 1. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington TX61,973
- 2. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands TX59,212
- 3. New York-Newark-Jersey City NY-NJ56,401
- 4. Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler AZ36,414
- 5. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim CA33,614
- 6. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell GA33,518
- 7. Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos TX23,368
- 8. Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater FL21,666
- 9. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria DC-VA-MD-WV21,588
- 10. Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford FL21,240
- 11. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue WA20,018
- 12. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia NC-SC19,866
- 13. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach FL19,145
- 14. Raleigh-Cary NC19,018
- 15. Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin TN17,510
- 16. North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota FL16,496
Top counties
By units permitted in the last 12 months.
- 1. Maricopa County28,806
- 2. Los Angeles County27,747
- 3. Harris County27,690
- 4. Collin County17,203
- 5. Tarrant County15,333
- 6. Wake County15,162
- 7. Montgomery County11,890
- 8. Miami-Dade County11,833
- 9. Fort Bend County11,823
- 10. Travis County11,657
- 11. Manatee County11,165
- 12. Clark County11,111
- 13. San Diego County10,989
- 14. Lee County10,841
- 15. King County10,696
- 16. Dallas County10,539
Those are the top 16 by volume. The full building-permit leaderboards rank every U.S. county and metro area by units permitted, permits per 1,000 residents, year-over-year growth, and multifamily share.
Building permits — FAQ
What is the Building Permits Survey?+
The Building Permits Survey (BPS) is a monthly U.S. Census Bureau program that counts new privately-owned residential building permits issued by roughly 20,000 permit-issuing jurisdictions, by structure size (1-unit, 2-unit, 3–4 unit, and 5+ unit buildings).
How current is this permit data?+
This site loads the most recent 24 months of BPS data plus annual totals back to 2019. The latest month is Jun 2026; the Census publishes with roughly a two-month lag and revises recent months.
Do permits mean homes were built?+
No. A permit authorizes construction; it does not mean a unit was started or completed. Permits are a leading indicator of housing supply, not a count of finished homes.
NCES · 2024–25 school year
U.S. public schools (K-12)
Enrollment, poverty, graduation rates and proficiency for every state and 3,140 counties, from NCES school data back to 1986. In 2024–25, 49,034,047 students attended 101,009 public schools (55.6% eligible for free/reduced-price lunch).
Largest state school systemsstudents enrolled, 2024–25
School statistics by state
Largest county school systems
By students enrolled, 2024–25.
- 1. Los Angeles County, California1,262,149
- 2. Harris County, Texas885,618
- 3. Maricopa County, Arizona724,555
- 4. Cook County, Illinois696,942
- 5. San Diego County, California466,146
- 6. Dallas County, Texas451,237
- 7. Orange County, California429,950
- 8. Riverside County, California424,406
- 9. San Bernardino County, California393,087
- 10. Tarrant County, Texas384,099
- 11. Bexar County, Texas363,784
- 12. Clark County, Nevada359,842
- 13. Miami-Dade County, Florida335,631
- 14. Kings County, New York290,852
- 15. King County, Washington277,999
- 16. Queens County, New York268,205
Education data — FAQ
What does the education data cover?+
Every public K-12 school in the U.S., rolled up to states (back to 1986) and counties (from 2002): enrollment, schools, teachers, free/reduced-price lunch, charter share, student demographics, school poverty (MEPS), chronic absenteeism, graduation rates, and math/reading proficiency.
Why do some statistics stop before the latest year?+
Not every federal collection runs every year. Graduation rates cover 2010–2022 at the state level (counties and districts through 2020 — the federal school-level collection stopped there) and proficiency runs through 2021 (the 2019–20 tests were cancelled nationwide during COVID); school poverty (MEPS) runs through 2022; chronic absenteeism is collected only in Civil Rights Data Collection cycle years. Pages label each figure with the school year it describes.
Why is free/reduced-price lunch missing for some states?+
Several states that adopted universal free meals (Arizona, Delaware, DC, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia) no longer report free/reduced-price lunch counts to the federal government, and 2020–21 reporting is COVID-weakened even where present. For those states and years, school poverty (MEPS) is the better measure of student economic need. States without a charter-school law show a true 0% charter share, not missing data.
Where does this data come from?+
The National Center for Education Statistics — the Common Core of Data, EDFacts, and the Civil Rights Data Collection. Full source and license details are on the methodology page. pumsdata is independent and not affiliated with NCES.
Data: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CCD, EDFacts, CRDC) and ED Data Express. Full source and license details on the methodology page.
HUD Fair Market Rents · FY2026
Fair market rents across the U.S.
HUD's official Fair Market Rents — the Section 8 payment-standard basis — for every state, 3,151 counties, and 394 metro areas, by bedroom size. A 2-bedroom FMR runs from $995 in West Virginia to $2,674 in California.
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting · 12 months ending March 2026
Crime trends across the U.S.
Preliminary quarterly offense counts from 15,767 law-enforcement agencies covering 321.9M people — violent crime down 9.1%, property crime down 12.1% versus the prior 12 months, by offense and state.
State & city departments of correction
Prison and jail populations
Monthly corrections populations for Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky — Louisiana’s running unbroken since 1989 — plus New York City’s jail admissions. Taken verbatim from each department’s own reports. The states do not all count the same people, and the page says which is which.
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting · 2024
Arrests across the U.S.
6,706,940 arrests reported by 14,558 law-enforcement agencies in 2024, by offense category — mapped across states and 2,975 counties, with age, sex and race breakdowns. Counts are arrests, not unique persons.
FBI SRS/NIBRS · 2024
Arson offenses
34,990 arson offenses (fires, not arrests) reported by law enforcement in 2024, de-duplicated across the FBI's two reporting streams — 5,347 of 25,445 agencies logged at least one, in 1,999 of the 3,133 counties with a reporting agency.
FBI LEOKA · 2024
Officers assaulted
85,730 officers were assaulted in 2024 — a rate of 13.5 per 100 sworn officers, 34.5% with injury — broken down by weapon, circumstance, assignment and time of day, with a 10-year trend.
BLS American Time Use Survey · 2025
How Americans spend their day
Average hours per day on sleep, work, leisure, childcare and more — from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics American Time Use Survey. National, weighted estimates; break down by sex, age, education, employment, or define your own population.
BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey · 2023
How Americans spend their money
Average annual household spending by category — housing, transportation, food, healthcare and more — from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey. Break it down by income, age, region, family size and housing tenure.
MIT Election Data & Science Lab · 1976–2024
U.S. presidential election results
Certified presidential results for every state (13 elections since 1976) and 3,113 counties (since 2000), mapped and comparable. In 2024, Donald J. Trump (Republican) won the popular vote with 77,302,580 votes to Kamala D. Harris’s 75,017,613, out of 155,212,983 ballots cast nationwide.
Largest 2024 margins
Among counties casting more than 50,000 votes.
- Washington DC, District of ColumbiaD+83.8
- Prince George County, MarylandD+74.8
- Baltimore (Independent City), MarylandD+72.4
- Clayton County, GeorgiaD+69.2
- Orleans Parish, LouisianaD+67.0
- Livingston Parish, LouisianaR+68.5
- Parker County, TexasR+66.4
- Midland County, TexasR+60.5
- Randall County, TexasR+60.4
- Baldwin County, AlabamaR+58.0
Most votes cast
Counties by total 2024 ballots.
- 1. Los Angeles County, California3,728,427
- 2. Cook County, Illinois2,079,239
- 3. Maricopa County, Arizona2,061,574
- 4. Harris County, Texas1,557,484
- 5. San Diego County, California1,477,786
- 6. Orange County, California1,390,965
- 7. King County, Washington1,130,502
- 8. Miami-Dade County, Florida1,094,105
Source: MIT Election Data & Science Lab (Harvard Dataverse) — certified state results 1976–2024 and county results 2000–2024. The popular-vote leader does not always win the presidency (2000 and 2016 differed). Alaska reports no county-level results; Connecticut results use its legacy counties.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · CPI-U · through June 2026
What inflation looks like, item by item
Consumer prices for 400 items across 58 areas — the national average plus regions, city-size classes, and major metros, back to 1997 (national series are monthly; many metro series are bimonthly). As of June 2026, overall prices are up 3.5% from a year earlier (+2.6% excluding food and energy).
October 2025 is missing from every CPI series — BLS did not publish the index during the federal shutdown, so charts show a gap and monthly changes skip it.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Consumer Price Index (CPI-U). Index values are as published (1982–84=100 for most series); yearly change is computed from not-seasonally-adjusted data and monthly change from seasonally adjusted data, the BLS headline conventions. Some metro series are published bimonthly. pumsdata is independent and not affiliated with BLS.
Housing Market · June 2026
The housing market across the U.S.
County housing-market trends — median sale prices, homes sold, new listings, inventory and days on market — for 3,137 U.S. counties, monthly from January 2017 through June 2026. Every median is that county's own — never pooled across geographies.
Busiest county marketshomes sold, trailing 12 months · own median sale price, June 2026