This guide provides quick links, primarily to tables, in the social sciences. It is organized by major topics and highlights statistics for some of the most frequently requested areas.
A free website with interactive maps, data and statistical views of Massachusetts at the city level with data for education, housing, crime, politics and public health. Click on the "I" icon to see data.
Local Law Enforcement Agency Profile by large cities including employment, demographic composition, functions, agency operations, salaries, employment requirements and training, and crimes reported summary.
Database with population, housing, income and labor force data for place, city, county and state. Web interface allows selection of multiple data elements to download. Selected data 1944-2000
This is a searchable database which indexes statistical tables from a wide range of government and private resources such as the FBI Uniform Crime Reports and Municipal Profiles, which provide crime data at the community level. Searches provide a citation for locating the material and in many cases full tables.
The archive offers a user-friendly interface to download data on criminal justice. The site includes Quick Tables of statistics and an online analysis tool, Data Analysis System (DAS).