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Take charge of
location-based data.

Use Social Explorer to visualize and interact with data, create maps, charts, reports and downloads that help you reach your goals. Explore hundreds of thousands of built-in data indicators related to demography, economy, health, politics, environment, crime and more. Easily add your own data for further impact.

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Simple

Map, just a click away.

To ensure your data reporting has maximum impact, you need more than spreadsheets full of numbers. You need the power of visualization. Social Explorer has all the tools you need to create beautiful and informative maps, tables, and charts that get your message across in seconds. Whether for your own information or to convince others, your data never looked so clear and compelling.

Multi-variable race map of NY with an overlay showing a year picker and data categories: population, age, sex, race, education, family. Multi-variable race map of NY with an overlay showing a year picker and data categories: population, age, sex, race, education, family.
Chart visualization of American Indian and Alaska Native the population by age in New York county area. Chart visualization of American Indian and Alaska Native the population by age in New York county area.
Comprehensive

Gain insight. Any place, any time.

Use Social Explorer to analyze and visualize the characteristics of almost any location. Whether you are interested in markets, voting, poverty, aging populations, ethnicity and race, spending patterns, health indicators, crime, environment or education, our easy to use tools will facilitate your analyses. You can see trends and make comparisons over time and place to gain insights and help make decisions.

Flexible

Make the reports you need.

With Social Explorer, you’ll have hundreds of built-in profile reports and over 40 billion data elements at your fingertips. Use a map to precisely locate a region and create a report in a second. Easily customize the report and download data for use with Excel or a desktop GIS application.

Illustration of a person using Social Explorer area masking feature. Illustration of a person using Social Explorer area masking feature.
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Trustworthy

Get it straight from the source.

Social Explorer brings you professional-quality demographic data from the most trusted sources, including the Decennial Census, American Community Survey (ACS), County Business Patterns, Population Estimates, LEHD and more. Many of these data sets are available at detailed geographic levels, down to a few city blocks. Some are from countries outside the United States, and others cover world regions.

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Quick

Save hours of work.

You know exactly what data will help you make business- critical decisions or complete your research. But collecting and curating that data from multiple sources can often take hours — or even days. At Social Explorer, we’ve spent thousands of hours ensuring that our billions of data points are always up to date, well-documented, curated and processed. So you don’t have to.

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State-of-the-art

Embrace technology that empowers.

Social Explorer maps are fast, smooth, precise and interactive. Our map rendering system is based on the most advanced web display technology available, and we continuously invest in cutting-edge technologies. In fact, we pioneered many of them like vector-based tiles and metadata-powered visualizations.

Low Maintenance

Easy to manage.

Social Explorer is completely web-based and hassle-free for both users and administrators. We have easy to manage licenses for individuals, businesses and institutions. We support teams up to 20 members and institutions with IP based authentication.

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