EasyStates

The U.S. Census Bureau holds the most comprehensive portrait of American life ever assembled — but finding anything on their own website is genuinely painful. EasyStates fixes that.

Ask anything about any state. Get the full picture instantly — population, income, home values, diversity, elections, and civic structure — visualized as maps, charts, and plain-English summaries. No cryptic codes. No nested menus. No suffering.

All data is retrieved live from the U.S. Census Bureau API and covers all 50 states. Profiles update automatically every year when the Census Bureau releases its new American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates.

Designed for a learning environment that is personal, private, and at your own pace. Works for classrooms, private tutoring, training programs, and more. Real Census data, election results, and state politics — organized into structured learning tools that work in any classroom.

Quizzes, data exercises, and guided explorations; video, audio, PDFs, and reflection prompts built for any teaching needs and students/participants. Already classroom-tested and trusted by enrolled students and faculty.

Free account required. Instructors register to create quizzes and manage class enrollments. Students register to enroll in a course and access their instructor's tools.

Over 80,000 active variables — spanning Census demographics, FEC presidential election results, network exit polls, and the institutional characteristics of every state — available for immediate statistical analysis.

Methods include e.g. principal component analysis, time series, and logistic regression. Results — including instant visualizations such as bar charts, pie charts, scatterplots, and 3-D plots — generated automatically the moment you select your variables.

The rigor of academic research. The simplicity of a single platform.