Implementations

While this is site primary focuses on the CitySDK, the Javascript implementation of the API, users of the Census Bureau API have created implementations for other popular programing languages.

All of the implementations listed here are not affiliated or endorsed, and have not been tested, by Census Bureau. Use them at your own discretion.

Name	Distribution	Author or maintainer	Notes
census	Python	DataMade	A simple wrapper for the Census Bureau’s API.
Cenpy	Python	cenpy developers	Provides easy-to-use access and mapping for census data via GeoDataFrames
CensusData	Python	Julien Leider
tidycensus	R	Kyle Walker.	Return tidyverse-ready data frames, optionally with simple feature geometry included.
censusapi	R	Hannah Recht	This package is designed to let you get data from all of those APIs using the same main function—getCensus—and the same syntax for each dataset.