Census Bureau publishes local air‑conditioning estimates using cross‑survey modeling

Jul 15, 2026

The U.S. Census Bureau this week published Local Air Conditioning Estimates (LACE), a tract‑level dataset produced by transferring air‑conditioning responses from the American Housing Survey to the American Community Survey using a cross‑survey machine‑learning workflow.

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Jay Sawyer, technical lead for model data product development at the U.S. Census Bureau, said the agency published the Local Air Conditioning Estimates, or LACE, last week and that the dataset shows the share of people with and without air conditioning at national, state, county and census‑tract levels.

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