Data

The following data is used in the tutorials on this site.

World Data

2023 World Bank Indicators

Selected demographic, economic, and public health indicators sourced from the World Bank

2023 World Energy Indicators

Energy-related indicators from the US Energy Information Administration and the World Bank.

Metadata
GeoJSON file
CSV file (wide format = most recent year)
CSV file (long format = all available years)

Statistical Review of World Energy

This is a polygon dataset representing country-level energy consumption, production, and reserves from the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, formerly the bp Statistical Review of World Energy.

2024 Review (data for 2023)

2020 Review (data for 2019)

2019 World Agriculture Indicators

Agriculture indicators from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

2023 World Indices

A collection of economic, political, and health indices from a variety of sources.

2012 World Religion

Country-level data on religious prevalence and religious tolerance from the Pew Research Center.

2020 Cartograms

Continuous and noncontinuous cartograms for US states and world countries scaled based on population.

2023 Graticule

Graticule as 20° polygons with 10° vertex separation, -180° to +180° longitude and -80° to +80° latitude.

GeoJSON file

Natural Earth Polygons

Natural Earth large scale (1:10m Cultural Vectors) polygons for world countries (Admin 0 - Details, map subunits). These include 209 sovereign states as 360 subunits that separate overseas territories (like French Guiana) and constituent countries (like the four countries of the United Kingdom). Antarctica has been removed to facilitate cleaner mapping in Mercator or equirectantular projections.

The files have minimal attribute columns to facilitate clean joins with tabular data: NAME, FORMAL_EN, and ISO_A3.

US American Community Survey Demographic Data

Selected demographic, housing, and economic data from the American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

County Data

Metadata
CSV file (2019-2023)
GeoJSON file (2019-2023)
GeoJSON file (2015-2019)
GeoJSON file (2014-2018)
GeoJSON file (2013-2017)

Census Tract Data

Metadata
CSV file (2019-2023)
GeoJSON file (2019-2023)
GeoJSON file (2015-2019)

ZIP Code (ZCTA) Data

Metadata
CSV file (2019-2023)
GeoJSON file (2019-2023)
GeoJSON file (2013-2017)

Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) Data

CSV file (2019-2023)
GeoJSON file (2019-2023)
GeoJSON file (2015-2019)
GeoJSON file (2014-2018)
GeoJSON file (2013-2017)

US Electoral Data

Electoral results and analysis from the 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 US presidential elections, along with a handful of demographic variables relevant to electoral analysis.

2012 - 2024 State-Level Data

2012 - 2024 County-Level Data

2024 US House District Level Data

Long Format CSV Data

US Energy Data

Climate Change Risk 2040-2060

Modeled county-level climate risk from the Rhodium Group under the RCP 8.5 scenario between 2040 and 2060 on a scale of 0 to 10 for heat, wet-bulb humidity, crop yeilds, sea-level rise, wildfire, and economic damage

2024 US Power Plants

Operable electric generating plants in the United States by energy source from the Energy Information Administration. This includes all plants that are operating, on standby, or short- or long-term out of service with a combined nameplate capacity of 1 MW or more.

2019 US County Energy Profiles

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's city and county energy profiles is a set of modeled estimates of electricity and natural gas consumption and expenditures, on-road vehicle fuel consumption, vehicle miles traveled, and associated emissions for residential, commercial, and industrial uses in US counties.

2019 US State Energy Profiles

State-level energy production and consumption data from the US Energy Information Administration.

2024 US Refineries

This is a point dataset representing all operable petroleum refineries located in the US from the Energy Information Administration.

2018 US Present, Past, and Planned Nuclear Plants

A list of active, former, and planned nuclear power reactors from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Wikipedia as of 15 May 2018.

2011 US Interstate Highway Traffic

Estimated mean annual average daily traffic for 2011 from the FHWA

2024 Occupational Data

2024 MSA polygons for working with data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational and Employment Wage Statistics Query System and the Occupational Outlook Handbook. Includes data for a handful of example occupations.

US Health Data

2023 PLACES Health Data

The CDC's PLACES project uses small area estimation methods to obtain 36 modeled chronic disease measures for counties, tracts, places, and ZCTAs in the United States.

National Vital Statistics System

The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) is a CDC program that provides data on births and deaths in the United States.

2021 Mortality: County level counts and rates for the 15 leading causes of death

2022 Natality: County level counts and rates for births and maternal health.

U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP): Estimates of life expectancy at birth e (0) by census tract 2010-2015. More recent CDC life expectancy estimates only appear to be available at the national level.

2020 US Hospitals

2023 Air Quality Statistics by County

County level air quality data from the US Environmental Protection Agency for urban counties.

Open Data Portals

World Data

data.worldbank.org (tutorial): A variety of economic, demographic, and environmental indicators collected by The World Bank
eurostat: A variety of economic, demographic, and environmental indicators collected by The European Union
FAOSTAT (tutorial): Food production information from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Global Health Observatory: Country-level health data from the World Health Organization of the UN
Global Internal Displacement Database: Data on internal refugees in countries compiled by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
World Religion: Religious adherence by country from the Association of Religion Data Archives
Global Acceptance Index: UCLA School of Law survey-based index on a scale of zero to ten indicating acceptance of LGBT people (country-level Excel)
LGBT World Equality Index: Indices for legal rights and public opinion on LGBTQ+ people (country-level CSV)

US Social Data

data.census.gov (demographic tables): Tabular demographic data from the US Census Bureau
TIGER cartographic boundary files (tutorial): Geospatial polygons from the US Census Bureau that can be joined with tabular data for spatial analysis and mapping
TIGER/Line Shapefiles: Geospatial polygons from the US Census Bureau that represent legal boundaries. These can be large and have borders into water areas that differ from common conceptions of land boundaries, so cartographic boundary files are often preferred for mapping.
US Department of Education school and district locations
US Department of Education school performance data
Gun Violence Archive: An online archive of US gun violence incidents collected from law enforcement, media, government and commercial sources daily. Incident listing tables include state and county location for mapping and spatial analysis.
National Database of Childcare Prices: Excel and CSV crosstabs with FIPS codes
Food environment atlas: County-level statistics on food availability from the USDA Economic Research Service (multi-page Excel with FIPS codes)
US Religion County Maps: The Association of Religion Data Archives
US Religion Census (2020): Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies
Languages spoken and limited English proficiency: Civil Rights Division, US Department of Justice (County-level CSV)
US Department of Labor Open Data Portal
data.cdc.org: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
BRFSS data portal: (raw data): CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
WONDER (mortality and natality): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

US Infrastructure Data

National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD): ArcGIS Hub portal of transportation infrastructure from the US Department of Transportation
SLOPE (State and Local Planning for Energy): State and local energy data from the National Laboratory of the Rockies
Wind / solar supply curves: Point estimates of wind and solar energy from the National Laboratory of the Rockies
Renewable Energy Siting Lab: Centralized collection of useful environmental and legal data for determining optimal renewable energy facilities locations. Data sets are often quite large and need manipulation in a scripting language like Python or R.
Community Water System Service Area Boundaries: Shapefile of city water systems from the EPA. Official EPA water quality data for service areas only appears to be available lists of inspection violations. The Environmental Working Group maintains a database of tap water quality, but there appear to be no downloadable tables and you will need to query each water system individually.
Railroad safety data: Data portal for railroad safety data from the Federal Railroad Administration (county-level CSV)
National Inventory of Dams: US Army Corps of Engineers
US Energy Atlas: US Energy Information Administration (EIA) data portal implemented with ArcGIS Enterprise Sites. Password protected as of 2025.
Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD): Geospatial infrastructure data from the US Department of Homeland Security. Password protected as of 2025.

US Environmental Data

US National Park Service open data portal
EarthExplorer: US Geological Survey
Toxics Release Inventory: US Environmental Protection Agency (tutorial)
EnviroAtlas: Downloadable tables of environmental data from the US Environmental Protection Agency. Much of the data is aggregated by hydrological unit code (HUC-12) which are comparatively small subwatershed boundaries that are cumbersome to use. Data can be browsed in the interactive map.
Assessment Cleanup and Redevelopment Exchange System (ACRES): Environmentally compromised facilities including brownfield properties from the EPA Data available in the EPA
Cleanups in My Community portal. Downloadable features available in the ArcGIS Living Atlas EPA Facility Registry Service - Assessment Cleanup and Redevelopment Exchange System (ACRES) data set.
USDA National Agricultural Statistics: County level agricultural data for animals, crops, economics, and environment as large tab-delimited files in long data format that can be processed in Python or R. More conveniently available in the ArcGIS Living Atlas as the USDA Census of Agriculture 2022.
National Land Cover Database: Land cover data (including tree canopy percent) from the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium. Imagery layers available in the ArcGIS Living Atlas.
USFWS Threatened & Endangered Species Active Critical Habitat Report Spatial data for active proposed and final critical habitat for FWS only and Joint FWS/NMFS threatened and endangered species. Also available in the ArcGIS Living Atlas.
Aqueduct 4 Water Risk: Global estimates of current and projected water resource risk. Available in downloadable form from the ArcGIS Living Atlas.
Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental Results System (WATERS): EPA water quality geospatial data from the EPA. Available in the ArcGIS Living Atlas as USA Impaired or Threatned Waterbodies.
Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO): Soils data from the US Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. The ArcGIS Living Atlas contains a convenient Erosion Class imagery service.
US Fish and Wildlife Service Open Data: ArcGIS Hub site with a variety of wildlife data sets
FEMA Geospatial Resource Center: Aggregation of threat data on earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfire, floods, and winter weather.
USGS National Map Downloader: Boundaries, DEMs, hydrography, transportation available as rasters, shapefiles, GeoPackages, and file geodatabases.
Climate at a Glance: County level climate data from NOAA
Air Quality Cities and Counties: Monitor-based data from the US EPA for counties and cities (.xlsx with FIPS codes)
Air Quality Index: Monitor-based data from the US EPA (county-level CSV)
The National Risk Index: Current risk levels for a variety of environmental conditions from the NOAA National Center for Environmental Information (county and tract level shapefile, GDB, and CSV)
Storm Prediction Center (SVRGIS): Downloadable geospatial data for tornadoes, hail, wind, and mobile homes from the US National Weather Service
Revised Atlantic Hurricane Database (HURDAT2): Hurricane tracking data from NOAA in a fixed-width text format that can be used with Python or R. Also available from the US National Hurricane Center Data Archive. NOAA maintains a Historical Hurricane Tracks portal for viewing detailed data on specific hurricanes. The ArcGIS Living Atlas contains a Historical Hurricane Tracks feature service that can be used to conveniently download hurricane track lines.
Earthquake Catalog: US Geological Survey
US Drought Monitor: National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Disaster cost and frequency: NOAA National Center for Environmental Information
Billion-dollar weather and climate events (table data): NOAA National Center for Environmental Information