# Help Finding a Thread/Link **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 6, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-a-thread-link/379310 "2006-11-06T16:43:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-a-thread-link/379310/1 "2006-11-06T16:43:18Z")
A while back, someone posted a thread in which there was a link to finding out your local statistics on environment/health, income, race, poverty . . . a lot of different stuff. I’ve spent about an hour now running different searches and I can’t find it. Anybody remember what I’m talking about? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-a-thread-link/379310/2 "2006-11-06T17:32:17Z")
I’m not sure what link you saw, but the Census bureau provides a lot of that stuff (sometimes easily discovered and sometimes buried in miles of .pdf). A couple from the Census are [State & County QuickFacts](http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html) [American FactFinder](http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en) A separate outfit (there may be a few others) that collects and posts information is [http://www.city-data.com/](http://www.city-data.com/) (Double check what they are displaying. The Township in the Southwest corner of my county shares a name with a village that is much farther South in Ohio and their page includes a mish-mosh of information taken from each location and mangled together. I suspect that such errors are more rare if you are dealing with entities larger than a couple thousand people.)