# 5-year 2020 ACS data **URL:** \ **Category:** NHGIS\ **Created:** [March 29, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/5-year-2020-acs-data/4575 "2022-03-29T14:51:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Adam\_Conner-Sax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Adam\_Conner-Sax](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Adam_Conner-Sax)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/5-year-2020-acs-data/4575/1 "2022-03-29T14:51:29Z")
Hi! I was wondering, now that the census has released the 2015-2020 ACS data, when it might be available via IPUMS (at the tract/block group level with shape files)? Thanks for all the work you do to make this data more accessible and useful! Adam ---
**Author:** ![KariWilliams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@KariWilliams](https://forum.ipums.org/u/KariWilliams)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/5-year-2020-acs-data/4575/2 "2022-03-31T14:24:44Z")
The IPUMS NHGIS team is working to release the data as quickly as possible. In typical years, these data are usually available via NHGIS about 4 weeks after the Census Bureau release. However, given some uncertainties around the 2020 5-year data, it may take somewhat longer this year. We will announce the release promptly via [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ipums), update the [revision history page](https://www.nhgis.org/revision-history), and send an email to IPUMS NHGIS users when the data have been released. ---
**Author:** ![Adam\_Conner-Sax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Adam\_Conner-Sax](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Adam_Conner-Sax)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/5-year-2020-acs-data/4575/3 "2022-03-31T15:20:08Z")
Thanks! And thanks again for all the work you do to make this data available and easy to use. Adam ---
**Author:** ![Adam\_Conner-Sax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Adam\_Conner-Sax](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Adam_Conner-Sax)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/5-year-2020-acs-data/4575/4 "2022-04-28T21:13:26Z")
I see today’s email announcement about this data! Great! But I don’t seem to be able to select any 2016-2020 data in the “select data” interface. Is this data only accessible a different way? Thanks! Adam ---
**Author:** ![JonathanSchroeder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.ipums.org/jonathanschroeder/32/70_2.png) [@JonathanSchroeder](https://forum.ipums.org/u/JonathanSchroeder)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 9:28pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/5-year-2020-acs-data/4575/5 "2022-04-28T21:28:38Z")
Thanks for following up, Adam, and alerting us to this issue. The data had been available there earlier today, but sometime in the last hour we accidentally applied a test process to our live site that caused it to disappear. It should be back now! ---
**Author:** ![Adam\_Conner-Sax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Adam\_Conner-Sax](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Adam_Conner-Sax)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/5-year-2020-acs-data/4575/6 "2022-04-28T21:47:28Z")
Excellent! I see it now. Still a little confusing. When I select ACS2016-2020 datasets and GIS files, and then all my specific tables (doing this as a revision of an earlier request, but I am careful to clear all the data-set specific filters) and then “continue” it still says something about 2014-2018 on the data-set part but 2020 on the GIS part. So I’m not completely sure I’m getting the right thing… And once submitted, the codebooks look like 2014-2018 as well. Maybe I requested it wrong. I’ll try again tomorrow… And thanks for all the work to make this data available in such a useful way! Adam ---
**Author:** ![JonathanSchroeder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.ipums.org/jonathanschroeder/32/70_2.png) [@JonathanSchroeder](https://forum.ipums.org/u/JonathanSchroeder)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/5-year-2020-acs-data/4575/7 "2022-04-29T00:13:32Z")
Adam, it seems there may be some lingering oddities in the state of our system… I tried some variations on your problem case, and most of my requests worked fine, but one of them failed–which is unusual. I suspect it’s only a temporary in-between-states issue, and that it should work fine when you try again tomorrow, but if not, please do let us know.