The Census Bureau collects lots of data between its once-every-10-years census. One of the most popular data sets is the bureau’s annual American Community Survey (ACS), which fills in some gaps about the US population between decennial censuses. It also compiles a lot of information not asked in the “regular” census, such as household income, that’s of great interest to businesses, government policymakers and journalists.

Results from the 2015 American Community Survey were released this morning. Here’s how to pull data for your community, county or state with R.

1. Install the censusapi package if it’s not already on your system. You’ll need the devtools package to install censusapi, so if you don’t have that either, install devtools with install.packages("devtools") and then install censusapi with devtools::install_github("hrecht/censusapi").

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