census_backup 0.1.6

Backup utilities.

censusdis/backup

This project is a command-line utility for bulk downloads of U.S. Census data.

Installation

pip install census_backup

Usage Examples

Download from a group across all available bulk geographies

This is the simplest way to use this tool. It will look for all available geographies for the given dataset and vintage, then download all variables in the specified group for every geography it can.

census-backup -d acs/acs5 -v 2020 -g B02001 -o ~/tmp/backup

The required arguments are:

• -d: the data set
• -v: the vintage
• -g: the variable group

The -o is an optional output directory. The default is the current working directory.

Download geometries that have state as a component

Sometimes we really only care about a specific set of geography levels. This example will download at the [state], [state, county], [state, county, tract] etc... levels.

census-backup -d acs/acs5 -v 2020 -g B02001 -G state -o ~/tmp/backup-states-and-below

Download state aggregated data only

This will not get geographies within the state. It will only get data aggregate at the state level.

census-backup -d acs/acs5 -v 2020 -g B02001 -G +state -o ~/tmp/backup-states

More Help

census-backup --help