Sources

Data Sources

This project uses publicly available data from the American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates (2019–2023), provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.

We accessed this data using the tidycensus R package. Key variables include:

  • DP02_0152P: Percent of households with a broadband internet subscription
  • B19013_001: Median household income
  • DP05_0077P: Percent of population identifying as White
  • DP02_0067P: Percent of adults with a bachelor’s degree
  • DP02_0057P: Percent of individuals currently enrolled in school
  • DP05_0018: Percent median_age

Data was retrieved programmatically using the Census API.

📦 R Packages Used

  • tidycensus – Access ACS & decennial census data
  • tidyverse – Data wrangling and visualization
  • ggplot2 – Plotting and visual exploration
  • dplyr, readr, stringr, forcats – Data manipulation