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Do you want basic information on population and housing in your community? Do you work in childhood development, youth outreach, senior advocacy, or emergency preparedness and response? ArcGIS Living Atlas has ready-to-use feature layers designed specifically for you!  Last December, we updated 78 Living Atlas layers containing ACS data within 48 hours of Census releasing the 2014-2018 values. These layers are all grouped by topic, such as health insurance, internet access, and living arrangements. Recently, we released some new layers grouped by industry or user persona rather than by topic, that include the most essential attributes for specific use-cases. Our four industry-specific layers include: Population and Housing Basics Context for Child Well-Being Context for Senior Well-Being Context for Emergency Response You can answer questions such as Where are seniors who are uninsured? Where are seniors who don’t have a computer? Where are seniors who live alone? all from one layer – Context for Senior Well-Being. We’ve assembled key attributes that span across all topics into layers that are designed with you in mind. Each of these new layers has dozens of attributes that are of interest to a specific industry. All ACS layers in Living Atlas can be found in this ArcGIS Online Content Group. To read more about the benefits of these layers, see this ArcGIS blog post. ... View more

The Living Atlas has a group of feature layers that contain over 100 detailed tables from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, making over 1,100 attributes on demographics, socioeconomics, and housing available across the ArcGIS platform. We've also provided some commonly calculated percentages from the American Community estimates to support your workflows. If you want to combine some counts and construct some additional attributes, it's easy to do so using Arcade Expressions. Here's a simple example: Say you're a social services analyst for a county, and you want to find out the count and percentage of children who live in single-parent families. You found the ACS Living Arrangements Variables layer in the Living Atlas, and you see two attributes: Total Population Under 18 Years in Male Householder (no wife present) Family Households (B09008_010E) Total Population Under 18 Years in Female Householder (no husband present) Family Households (B09008_011E) You could create a quick Arcade Expression to add these two to get the count of children in single-parent families: $feature["B09008_010E"]+$feature["B09008_011E"]   Now to get the percentage, you can take advantage of the pre-calculated percentages! In this case, the two you would be interested in are: Percent of Children in Single-Male Householder Families (B09008_calc_pctSME) Percent of Children in Single-Female Householder Families (B09008_calc_pctSFE) The Arcade Expression for the percent of children in single-parent families looks like this: $feature["B09008_calc_pctSME"]+$feature["B09008_calc_pctSFE"] Alternatively, you could find the field that contains the denominator you need and divide, making your Arcade Expression as follows: ($feature["B09008_010E"]+$feature["B09008_011E"])/$feature["B09008_001E"]*100 Add your custom calculations here! Have you constructed any custom statistics with the americancommunitysurvey layers available in the Living Atlas?  Please share them below! If you have questions as you're calculating custom statistics, feel free to ask (and answer!) them here.   ... View more