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American FactFinder Address Lookup Alternative for Census Geographic Information

March 14, 2020

Using USgeocoder as an American FactFinder Address Lookup Alternative for Geographic Information

A simpler and easier way to search geographies by address lookup

American FactFinder, https://factfinder.census.gov/, a service of the US Census Bureau, will be discontinued as of March 31, 2020. Are you looking for an American FactFinder Address Lookup Alternative? USgeocoder continues to receive increasing inquiries from American FactFinder users seeking a viable and enhanced alternative solution.

The majority of FactFinder users used its “Advanced Search” to implement address lookups that return geographic information including county, municipality, congressional district, state legislative districts, census tract, and school districts.

American FactFinder offered lookup by list, lookup by name, lookup by address, and lookup by map options. Most data previously released on American FactFinder is now being released on U.S. Census Bureau’s new dissemination platform, data.census.gov.

However, on this new platform, “lookup by address” and “lookup by map” options are not available. Some users also inform USgeocoder that the new US Census platform is hard to use and are having difficulty finding the information they want.

USgeocoder Live demo offers Census geographic information by address lookup

Users of USgeocoder can obtain the majority of the geographic information provided by American FactFinder by using the USgeocoder Live demo. https://usgeocoder.com/api_live_demo. (Learn more about American FactFinder Results vs. USgeocoder results.)

USgeocoder is a GIS (Geographic Information System) platform providing location lookup and district matching services. The USgeocoder core competency is to locate any physical address, identify its latitude and longitude, and then query continually updated district maps to deliver political districts from federal to local. Such queries return related information including elected officials, census geographies, and sales and use tax rates.

As with American FactFinder, USgeocoder Live demo performs address lookups however; users of both platforms tell us, USgeocoder is easier to use!

For example, instead of entering street address, city, state and zip code in FactFnder, USgeocoder users need only enter the street address and the zip 5 of interest. See this now in the USgeocoder Live demo: https://usgeocoder.com/api_live_demo.


Using USgeocoder for American FactFinder Address Lookup


After you press the “Free Lookup” button, a new window opens with the information about the input address on the left and a map on the right. The location of the input address is marked on the map.


USgeocoder Live Demo for American FactFinder


You will see on the left under the “About This Address” tab, the information grouped in 6 categories:

  1. Standardized Address
  2. Geolocation Codes
  3. Zip Codes & Mail Delivery
  4. District & Elected Officials
  5. Census Geography
  6. Sales and Use Tax Rates

Click on each category to expand the category and see related information for the address that was input. The information you would get from American FactFinder is in the “District & Elected Officials” and “Census Geography” groups. So if this is the information you need, USgeocoder live demo is a great American FactFinder Address Lookup Alternative for you!

When you click on the “Map Layer & Legend” tab, you will see the options to turn on and turn off the base map, political district, and census geographic layers:

  1. Transportation Network
  2. Water Features
  3. Land Marks
  4. State
  5. County
  6. Un-/Incorporated
  7. Tribal Lands
  8. Federal Public Lands
  9. Military Installations
  10. 116th Congressional District
  11. 115th Congressional District
  12. State Upper House 2020
  13. State Lower House 2020
  14. State Upper House 2019
  15. State Lower House 2019
  16. County Subdivision
  17. Voting Precinct
  18. School Disricts
  19. Census Block
  20. Census 2000 Block
  21. Block Group
  22. Census Tract
  23. MSA
  24. Urban Area

USgeocoder Live Demo for American FactFinder Map Lookup

Lookup American FactFinder geographic information for FREE using the USgeocoder Live Demo!

American FactFinder users are asking “What’s the cost of using USgeocoder Live Demo?”

The answer is “Free!”

The USgeocoder Live demo is a place where users can discover the data types and information capabilities USgeocoder provides. The company’s existing clients have all used this demo to test USgeocoder accuracy before contacting a representative.

USgeocoder Live demo is a free lookup tool to lookup one address at a time. So if you need an online tool to search geographies for specific addresses, USgeocoder live demo works really well as an American FactFinder Address Lookup Alternative.

However if you have a large number of addresses and would like to save time, USgeocoder can batch process the file for you for a fee.

If you are looking for a service like American FactFinder API to integrate the data in your application, the USgeocoder API service can seamlessly replace it: https://usgeocoder.com/api_overview. Every piece of information shown in the live demo can be handled via batch processing and API.

USgeocoder Provides 100% Privacy Guaranteed.

USgeocoder is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) & RFPA (Right to Financial Privacy Act) compliant. USgeocoder does not scrape, resell, market, share or store any client data. They guarantee client proprietary data remains 100% confidential

For more information on how batch processing and USgeocoder API, call 1-888-938-6732, chat with a USgeocoder team member via live chat, or reach out using this page: https://usgeocoder.com/contact_us. USgeocoder will reply within 24 hours.

To learn more about the similarities and differences between American FactFinder and USgeocoder Address lookup results, please visit: https://blog.usgeocoder.com/american-factfinder-address-lookup-alternative-usgeocoder/.


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