Open reference data
City & state data download
Data vintage:
Two stable, downloadable reference tables compiled from official federal sources: a full U.S. city profile dataset (28,702 cities) and a state-level tracking summary (52 states and territories). Both are read directly from the same database that powers every city and state profile page on this site -- no figure is typed in by an editor.
U.S. city profile dataset
One row per tracked city: name, state, profile URL, population, median income, median home value, poverty rate, crime rate, and school count. 28,702 cities. CSV only -- the full table is too large for a practical single JSON download; use the state-level JSON below for a smaller machine-readable summary.
APA
PlainCities. (2026-07-26). U.S. city profile dataset, Census ACS 5-Year Estimates 2023 [Data set]. https://plaincities.com/data/plaincities-cities.csv
MLA
PlainCities. "U.S. City Profile Dataset, Census ACS 5-Year Estimates 2023." July 26, 2026, https://plaincities.com/data/plaincities-cities.csv.
U.S. state-level city-tracking summary
One row per state/territory: tracked city count, total population, and averaged median income, home value, and poverty rate across every tracked city in that state. 52 states and territories.
APA
PlainCities. (2026-07-26). U.S. state-level city-tracking summary, Census ACS 5-Year Estimates 2023 [Data set]. https://plaincities.com/data/plaincities-states.csv
MLA
PlainCities. "U.S. State-Level City-Tracking Summary, Census ACS 5-Year Estimates 2023." July 26, 2026, https://plaincities.com/data/plaincities-states.csv.
Reuse and attribution
PlainCities licenses these downloadable files, including their compilation, under CC BY 4.0 -- reuse with attribution. The underlying Census and FBI records are U.S. federal government data and are already in the public domain; this license covers PlainCities' compilation, cleaning, and formatting work.
See the methodology page for the full processing pipeline, or contact us to report a data issue.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates + FBI UCR 2023 5-Year Estimates · 2023 PlainCities compiles the downloadable summary tables directly from Census and FBI records; every figure is read live from the same database that powers the site's city and state pages.