CensusForge

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Authors: Alejandro Ouslan
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Abstract

CensusForge is a Python toolkit for retrieving data from the U.S. Census API while also leveraging a local SQLite metadata database for fast lookups, the SQLite database creation repo can be found in this link in GitHub. It simplifies working with Census datasets by providing a unified interface for: Downloading and caching geographic files Querying the Census API Looking up dataset, variable, year, and geography metadata Returning results as Polars or GeoPandas objects

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Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
2 January 2026
Language
EN