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Response Outreach Area Mapper

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.

To help you get started, please reference ROAM's additional resources:

ROAM Application

Interact with the live application below, or open it in a separate window.

ROAM REST Services

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 2014 Census Tract; cached thematic map ROAM 2016PDB/ROAM CACHE                                                                                    
2014 Census Tract data from 2016 Planning Database (and supporting 2014 geographic area boundaries) ROAM 2016PDB/ROAM Dynamic


The Census Bureau publishes TIGERweb REST Services in a similar manner.




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