2025A Release Highlights

We are excited to announce our latest data release is now available. Highlights include new and updated tables for our core Estimates and Projections, as well as more than 1,900 new MRI variables. For full details on what has been updated and included, keep reading....

The Rise of Senior Living Facilities

Since the 1970s, the average age of Americans has been on a steady rise, creeping toward 40 years old. As we age, more and more people will need different living situations from the typical single-family home, either in an active senior or assisted living facility....

Exploring Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico has been a territory of the United States since 1898, acquired from Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War. Puerto Ricans have been citizens of the United States since 1917, and the potential statehood of the territory has been discussed for...

2024B Release Highlights

Consumer Expenditures The consumer expenditure model has been completely revised to utilize the AGS Synthetic Household model, yielding results which are much better able to capture the differences in small area expenditure patterns. Newly available within the model...

AGS Staff Favorites From 2024A

When we put together a new release, one of my favorite things to do is look through the list of new variables and pick out the odd, the unique, the interesting, and think about the use cases of who needs them. Just like I do, the staff also went through the list, we...

2024A Release Overview

The AGS 2024A data release is now available. Here are the highlights that you will find in the new release. Many of the AGS data are available natively at the block level. Block level output of other datasets is handled by disaggregation techniques using the AGS block...