Research Guides: Sociology: Research on Houston

Texas Almanac

Texas Almanac

Call Number: Ref AY311.D3 .T3

ISBN: 978-1-62511-004-6

Publication Date: 2000-2015

From 1904 to 1999, the almanac title was

Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide

Government information at the county level.

Houston Area Survey

The annual “Kinder Institute Houston Area Survey” has measured systematically this region's ongoing economic and demographic transformations and recorded the way area residents are responding to them. No other metropolitan region in America has been the focus of a research program of this scope. No city more clearly exemplifies the trends that are rapidly refashioning the social and political landscape across all of urban America.

Kinder Institute at Rice

The Kinder Institute for Urban Research is a multi-disciplinary “think-and-do tank” housed on the Rice University campus in central Houston, focusing on urban issues in Houston, the American Sunbelt, and around the world. Created in 2010, the Institute was endowed with a $15 million gift from Houston philanthropists Richard and Nancy Kinder.

Research Reports from the Kinder Institute

Key Data Sources

Texas.gov Open Data
Free datasets directly from Texas government agencies, as required by Senate Bill 279
City of Houston GIS database
Roads, school districts, libraries, and many more GIS features
Houston-Galveston Area Council: GIS Datasets
Census boundaries, cultural features, elevation, hydrologic, and environmental data for Texas and the Houston-Galveston area

Statistical Abstract of the U.S. This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Tables can be exported as CSV files.
Data.Census.Gov This link opens in a new window
U.S. Census Bureau search tool for all of its data and digital content, including population, demographic, social, and economic facts and figures