What Kinds of Reports and Data Categories Does Data USA Cover?

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Data USA organizes U.S. public data into more than 47,000 automated reports across six main categories: locations, industries, jobs, universities, degrees, and products. You can browse any category directly, or use search to find a specific place, industry, occupation, school, degree, or product and open its report. Each report aggregates data from U.S. government sources and lets you view, compare, and download the underlying data.

The six report categories

Category Number of reports What it covers
Locations 36,534 States, cities, and other places
Industries 308 Industry sectors such as oil & gas extraction, finance & insurance, restaurants & food services, utilities
Jobs 648 Occupations such as customer service representatives, police officers, registered nurses, service occupations
Universities 7,587 Individual colleges and universities
Degrees 1,837 Fields of study such as computer science, engineering, general business administration & management, electrical engineering
Products 254 Product and service categories, e.g. accounting and related services, materials and supplies for machinery and transportation equipment manufacturing, R&D services, communications and information services

These counts come from the site's own category listings, so they reflect what is currently published rather than a fixed catalog.

How to find a report

  1. Start from a category. The homepage lists Locations, Industries, Jobs, Universities, Degrees, and Products. Pick the dimension you care about.
  2. Or search directly. Use the search function to jump to a specific report — for example, a city, an occupation, or a university.
  3. Open the report. Each report is an automated page for that entity, combining relevant public data into one view.
  4. Compare and download. Reports support comparison between entities, and the data can be downloaded for your own analysis.

Expected result: you land on a single page that aggregates the available public data for that place, industry, job, school, degree, or product, instead of pulling from multiple government sources yourself.

What you can do with the data

  • View aggregated data for any covered entity.
  • Download data to work with it outside the platform.
  • Compare reports across locations, industries, or other entities.
  • Map data where geographic context applies.

Examples of popular reports

The site highlights frequently viewed reports, which gives a sense of the range:

  • Locations: California; Welch, WV; New York, NY; Houston, TX
  • Industries: Oil & gas extraction; Finance & insurance; Restaurants & food services; Utilities
  • Jobs: Customer service representatives; Police officers; Service occupations; Registered nurses
  • Universities: Harvard University; University of Washington–Seattle Campus; UCLA; UC Berkeley
  • Degrees: Computer Science; Engineering; General Business Administration & Management; Electrical Engineering
  • Products: Accounting and related services; Materials and supplies for machinery and transportation equipment manufacturing; Research and development services; Communications and information services

Additional data via Deloitte PeoplePrism

New data is available through Deloitte's PeoplePrism, covering all 50 states. It draws on predictive and geospatial analysis to examine environmental and social factors associated with health and quality of life in communities. Current topics include Healthcare Access (with state-level health coverage reports such as California, New York, and Texas), with Food Pantry Access, Food Insecurity, and Skills & Job Market listed as coming soon. PeoplePrism additions are marked with a Deloitte logo.

When this coverage fits your need

Data USA is a good starting point if you want a quick, aggregated view of U.S. public data for a specific place, industry, occupation, school, degree, or product, and you want to compare or download it without assembling sources yourself. If you need a category not listed above, or data outside U.S. public sources, you will need a different tool.