Why the 2025 ACS 1-year income tables have no release date yet
If you are waiting on 2025 state-level household income figures from the American Community Survey, there is no date to wait for. The Census Bureau has said the release date is still being determined, and has tied that to a new Commerce Department order on disclosure avoidance.
CPS ASEC income and poverty statistics for 2025 are confirmed for Sept. 15, 2026. The 2025 ACS 1-year estimates have no announced date. These are two different surveys, and only the second one is delayed. For state-level income the delayed one is the one that matters.
What the Census Bureau actually said
“The release date for the 2025 ACS 1-year estimates is being determined. The Census Bureau is assessing the impact of the new departmental administrative order (DAO), Department of Commerce Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products, and seeking DAO-compliant solutions to allow the release of the ACS 1-year tables later this year.”
Two things are worth reading precisely there. The Bureau says “later this year,” which is an intention rather than a scheduled date. And it says it is seeking DAO-compliant solutions, which means the obstacle is the method of privacy protection, not the collection of the data.
What the order does
The Department of Commerce issued DAO 216-26, Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products, on June 4, 2026. It applies to the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and it narrows the set of methods those agencies may use to protect individual records in published statistics to two:
- Suppression - withholding a figure entirely.
- Coarsening - rounding, aggregating into larger groups, or publishing a range instead of a value.
A joint statement from the Population Association of America, COPAFS, APDU, APC and ICPSR reads the order as effectively ruling out noise-infusion approaches, including differential privacy, and warns of the trade-off in plain terms: “there will either be less privacy for our personal information, or less usable data, or both.” That statement also notes that the products most exposed are the detailed ones - small geographies, and cross-tabs fine enough to describe a neighborhood (joint statement).
What is confirmed and what is not
| Product | Status |
|---|---|
| 2025 income, poverty and health insurance statistics (CPS ASEC) | Confirmed: Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026 |
| 2025 ACS 1-year estimates (includes B19013, B19080) | No announced date. Bureau states “later this year” as an aim |
| Whether released ACS tables will be coarsened relative to prior years | Not stated by the Bureau. Unknown |
Release dates from the Census Bureau's media advisory and ACS updates page. The third row is marked unknown because we have found no Bureau statement either way, not because a change is expected.
If you need state income figures before then
The most recent published ACS 1-year state income distribution remains 2024. The Census Bureau's own guidance is to use the ACS for state-level income, and to use CPS ASEC 2-year or 3-year averages rather than a single year when comparing states, so the Sept. 15 CPS ASEC release is not a drop-in substitute for a state-by-state ACS table.
Our state tables are built from ACS 2024 1-year estimates (B19080 quintile upper limits, B19013 median), retrieved 2026-07-11, and are free to cite and embed.
Income percentile by state, all 50 states and DC → How these figures are derived →