- Type
- not stated
- Format
- Tabular — dBASE (.dbf) downloadable files plus Excel/web profiles, shapefile-joined via the CV XE GIS toolset, with a data-extraction API and geocoder endpoint
- Volume
- Stated coverage: ~3,200 counties, all states and metros, 74K+ census tracts, ~440K blocks, plus places, ZIPs, congressional districts and school districts, each carrying multi-decade histories and projections to 2030/2060 across 10+ subject domains — millions of small-area series observations. The countable catalog on the data-service page alone is ~12 named dataset families (070 housing units, 110 County Business Patterns, 120 REIS, 140 establishments/employment/earnings quarterly, 150 monthly local-area employment, 160 building permits, 170 health coverage, 180 health indicators, and more).
- Users
- est. low hundreds to a few thousand — paid Data Service subscriber IDs plus free ProximityOne User Group members (inferred from a 2-person firm selling per-seat software at $495-$1,995 list plus subscriptions, and a user-group membership model)
- History
- 25 years
- Update frequency
- not stated
- Growth
- Active but micro — weekly update bulletins and dated vintage releases continuing through Sept-Dec 2026 (Vintage 2024 with interim Sep/Nov/Dec updates), free weekly user-group web sessions, a new team member welcomed and a Japan consulting partnership noted; headcount still ~2
- Launched
- est. early 2000s for the firm — founder is a former Census Bureau statistician and former associate director of the US Office of Federal Statistical Policy and Standards with 20+ years in the field; the S&O subscription database and its documentation trace back through 2013 releases, and site assets reference 2010-census-era files
- Delivery
- not stated
- Entity mapping
- not stated
- Sample
- not stated
- Point-in-time
- not stated
- Licence
- not stated