Hi folks,
I’m looking for help finding some demographic information about congressional districts. I work with a student-run political action committee (www.snappac.org) and I’m doing a little bit of research on students and politics to help us with our 2012 targeting. I was curious to know which districts have the most high school and college students (though obviously the answer will change after redistricting). The American Community Survey has estimates of the numbers of college/graduate students and high school students in each district, but I can’t find a way to access it in convenient fashion. Instead, I have to go to fastfacts.census.gov and look up each district one at a time.
Anybody know where I could see this information all in one spreadsheet? Or an otherwise sortable format?
P.S. While doing this research, I stumbled on an interesting piece of trivia – the three largest college campuses (at least according to Wikipedia) are all currently represented by freshman Republicans. Pretty vivid illustration of the total disappearance of young voters in midterm elections. Mary Jo Kilroy and (especially) Tom Perriello also come to mind as candidates who suffered from the decline of the university vote.
Have you tried submitting this question to the census bureau support question & answer center? If you go to ask.census.gov there seems to be a form where you can submit a question to their support team. I have never done it so I don’t know how it works, but it might be worth a shot.