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license: MIT
title: 'tinycensus: Lightweight Interface to the US Census Bureau API'
version: 0.0.0.9000
abstract: Download data from the United States Census Bureau API <https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html>.
  The package provides lightweight, product-specific interfaces for ACS, decennial
  census data, PEP, CBP, migration flows, and time-series datasets. It also uses Census
  metadata endpoints to discover datasets, variables, tables, and supported geographies,
  with optional spatial output joined through 'tinytiger'.
authors:
- family-names: Kenny
  given-names: Christopher T.
  email: ctkenny@proton.me
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9386-6860
repository: https://christopherkenny.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/christopherkenny/tinycensus
commit: d1d338651a55abe1849a4688484108a1e3ad1a2c
url: https://christophertkenny.com/tinycensus/
date-released: '2026-05-01'
contact:
- family-names: Kenny
  given-names: Christopher T.
  email: ctkenny@proton.me
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9386-6860