This morning I was able to access the Census Bureau’s data for an article this afternoon I got this message:
Due to the lapse in government funding, census.gov sites, services, and all online survey collection requests will be unavailable until further notice.
Updates regarding government operating status and resumption of normal operations can be found at .
Websites affected by this shutdown are all census.gov hosted websites, including:
Census.gov
American Factfinder
Public API
FTP Servers
FAQs
Blogs
Online Surveys
Federal Statistical Organization websites: FCSM, FedStats and MapStats