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The Response Outreach Area Mapper (ROAM) application was developed to make it easier to identify hard-to-survey areas and to provide a socioeconomic and demographic characteristic profile of these areas using American Community Survey (ACS) estimates available in the Planning Database. Learning about each hard-to-survey area allows the U.S. Census Bureau to create a tailored communication and partnership campaign, and to plan for field resources including hiring staff with language skills. These and other efforts can improve response rates. To learn more see The Low Response Score (LRS): A Metric to Locate, Predict, and Manage Hard-to-Survey Populations and The 2020 Census at a Glance: Plan Census Outreach with the Response Outreach Area Mapper tool.
To help you get started, please reference ROAM's additional resources:
Interact with the live application below, or open it in a separate window.
The GeoServices REST Specification provides a way for web clients to communicate with Geographic Information System (GIS) servers through Representational State Transfer (REST) technology.
To learn more about the GeoServices REST specification visit Open APIs and Specifications.
Map Description | Map Service Links |
Low Response Score by 2016 Census Tract; cached thematic map | ROAM/ROAM CACHE |
2016 Census Tract data from 2018 Planning Database (and supporting 2016 geographic area boundaries) | ROAM/ROAM Dynamic |
The Census Bureau publishes TIGERweb REST Services in a similar manner.
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