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Census presenter outlines the four data layers behind My Community Explorer
Summary
The webinar detailed MCE's four core layers—Nonemployer Statistics (NES), County Business Patterns (CBP), the American Community Survey (ACS) five-year estimates, and Community Resilience Estimates (CRE)—including update cadence and geographic resolution.
Meredith Maxwell explained that My Community Explorer (MCE) integrates four core Census data layers. The two business layers are Nonemployer Statistics (NES), which shows self-employed establishments and revenue by NAICS sectors, and County Business Patterns (CBP), which provides employer establishment counts, employment and payroll down to 6-digit NAICS. Maxwell said these business layers are updated annually.
On socioeconomic data, Maxwell described the American Community Survey (ACS) five-year release (2018–2022 in the demo) for demographic and economic characteristics, and the Community Resilience Estimates (CRE), which use small-area estimation to combine ACS microdata, population estimates and decennial census microdata to measure social vulnerability. "CRE estimates the capacity of individuals and households to absorb, endure, and recover from disasters," she said, noting CRE publishes down to the census tract level.
