Census ACS Table Downloader

Store Positioning

Store title: Census ACS Table Downloader

Short description: Download Census ACS-style table variables for configured years, geographies, and table IDs into normalized rows with estimates, margins of error, labels, and geography metadata.

SEO title: Census ACS Table Downloader — official public data extraction and monitoring

SEO description: Download Census ACS-style table variables for configured years, geographies, and table IDs into normalized rows with estimates, margins of error, labels, and geography metadata. Use it to normalize official public data into clean Apify datasets with source-specific fields and report artifacts.

Categories: SEO_TOOLS

Keywords: census, acs, table, downloader, data qa, official/public-data actor

Pay-Per-Event Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Event prices include Apify platform usage; users are not expected to pay a separate platform-usage pass-through charge for the configured pricing model.

• Tier: D1 — Official/public-data actor
• Primary event: record-fetched at $0.00908 base
• Default max charge: $15.00
• Store discounts: FREE/BRONZE base, SILVER discounted, GOLD deepest approved discount

Event set:

• actor-start: base $0.02000, GOLD $0.01760. Census Acs Table Downloader: charged when actor start is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• record-fetched: base $0.00908, GOLD $0.00799. Census Acs Table Downloader: charged when record fetched is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• event-detected: base $0.01300, GOLD $0.01140. Census Acs Table Downloader: charged when event detected is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• report-generated: base $0.05000, GOLD $0.04400. Census Acs Table Downloader: charged when report generated is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.

The actor accepts actor-start before work, accepts the primary event before each dataset row, and accepts the configured report event before writing report files. If maxChargeUsd or the live PPE limit blocks a charge, the corresponding row or report is not written.

Public Task Concepts

• Download state population estimates
• Export county household income
• Pull state housing unit counts
• Compare state race population totals
• Download county commuting estimates

Inputs

• apiKey
• survey
• years
• tableIds
• variables
• geographies
• stateFips
• countyFips
• tracts
• includeMarginsOfError
• includeVariableLabels
• outputWideFormat
• maxRequests
• timeoutMs

The exact default analyzes a bounded public ACS 2024 population observation for Anderson County sourced through Census Reporter at 2026-07-12T06:15:00Z; no credential is stored.

Outputs

• year
• survey
• tableId
• variable
• variableLabel
• geographyId
• geographyName
• stateFips
• countyFips
• estimate
• marginOfError
• universe
• source
• warning

Run locally with npm test and npm run build.