From updating infrastructure to public transit and walkability, here's how Houston uses...
, that sets Houston’s statistics side by side with the ten most populous cities in the U.S. “How We Compare” reports are categorized by Demographic, Social, Economic and Housing and used by the media and the general public.
This latest ACS release is the 5-year estimate, an average of 60 months of survey responses adjusted to correct for errors and a lower-than-usual response rate. The Census Bureau received fewer responses to the survey form than at any point in the last two decades, a reduction attributed to the pandemic.
For this release, the Census also used a new method of withholding information about survey respondents called differential privacy. Despite the delay, the information provided by the ACS is critical to many functions within the Houston city government.
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