Who lives here, and what they pay
Population, income, rent and housing age for one county, as the Census publishes them. The one layer here that describes the people rather than the buildings.
A row here is a whole county. For the same measures around one address, use the census tract file — it resolves to the tract your parcel is in.
The file
2020-2024 ACS 5-year
24 rowsCounties in this file: Hennepin, Ramsey · 6 columns available · free, no account, no rate limit.
What the rows look like
10 real rows from this file, spread evenly across it rather than taken off the top — every file here is written in some order, so its first rows are never a fair sample of it. These are the default columns, which is what the download button hands over.
| measure | value | county | unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| population | 1,269,496 | Hennepin County, Minnesota | people |
| rent for a year | $17,844 | Hennepin County, Minnesota | USD |
| rent as a share of income | 29% | Hennepin County, Minnesota | percent |
| housing units | 571,527 | Hennepin County, Minnesota | units |
| housing built since 2010 | 10.9% | Hennepin County, Minnesota | percent |
| median household income | $81,568 | Ramsey County, Minnesota | USD |
| rent for a year | $15,948 | Ramsey County, Minnesota | USD |
| homes that are rented | 39.4% | Ramsey County, Minnesota | percent |
| housing units | 233,870 | Ramsey County, Minnesota | units |
| worked from home | 15.4% (was 5.1% in 2019) | Ramsey County, Minnesota | percent |
The cuts of this file
Every cut is the same columns, filtered. Pick one and the row count changes; the file does not.
Every column in this file
Columns marked default come down unless you pick your own with
&columns=.
| Column | What it is | In the default file |
|---|---|---|
measure |
measure | default |
shown |
value | default |
county |
county | default |
unit |
unit | default |
value |
raw value | optional |
period |
vintage | optional |
Where it comes from
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey
This source does not stamp the day it was published, so we cannot honestly date our copy of it and will not guess. The period the records themselves cover is on the system card.
What this layer cannot answer is stated in full on the system card — read it before quoting a figure.
What you may do with it
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Share it, change it, build a product on it, sell that product — all fine. The one condition is credit: say it came from Brick & Mortar and link back.
Records published by U.S. Census Bureau. A work of the United States government, which is not subject to copyright protection in the U.S. (17 U.S.C. § 105).
Read the full licence · how we license every dataset, and the two we do not
Without the page
/api/export?dataset=county-profile&format=csv returns the
same file. Call /api/export
with no arguments for the whole catalogue.
Point an AI at it
Every file carries its own source, its capture date and the layer's own warnings in the header, so a model reading one gets the caveats with the numbers rather than the numbers alone. Paste this at an assistant that can fetch a URL:
Read https://brickandmortar.dev/api/export?dataset=county-profile&format=csv
Everything above the header row is provenance and limits. Read it first,
then answer using only what the rows support.llms.txt describes the whole warehouse the same way — what each dataset holds, which counties it really covers, and what it cannot answer.