Does Fivetran Offer a U.S. Census Bureau Connector? Portable Does!

With Portable, you can sync U.S. Census Bureau data into your data warehouse in minutes. Analyze all of your government statistical agency data from within without having to manage cumbersome ETL scripts.

How to Set up a U.S. Census Bureau ETL Connector in 3 Minutes

It’s easy to connect U.S. Census Bureau to your data warehouse with Portable.

Create your Portable account (it’s free)
Add a U.S. Census Bureau source —Search for and select U.S. Census Bureau
Enter your U.S. Census Bureau credentials using the instructions in the Portable console
Pick your data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or PostgreSQL) and authenticate
Create a flow connecting U.S. Census Bureau to your data warehouse
Replicate data from U.S. Census Bureau to your destination of choice
Set your data flow to run on a cadence (daily, hourly, etc.)

The Benefits of a No-Code U.S. Census Bureau ETL Solution

Business intelligence teams love creating value from data. And the easiest way to get started is by using a no-code tool like Fivetran for the most common data sources:

Applications like: Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Sheets, Facebook Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Salesforce, Shopify, etc.
Databases like: MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, etc.

By using a SaaS ETL solution like Fivetran or Portable, you can focus your efforts on building dashboards, writing SQL, and generating business value instead of deploying and maintaining infrastructure.

What’s included in Fivetran’s product?

160+ data source connectors
Change data capture support for databases
Support for data warehouses and data lakes as destinations
Pricing based on Monthly Active Rows
Warehouse-native data transformation
Professional services for enterprise use cases

Fivetran is a great place to get started, but as you build out your data team, you will start to receive more nuanced requests for analytics.

As more requests for insights make their way into your backlog, you won’t be able to repurpose data from your existing data sources (like your product database and CRM system) into new dashboards, so you will need to integrate U.S. Census Bureau and other bespoke applications into your data warehouse.

The question is: How?

What Is the Best Solution for Bespoke Long-Tail Connectors Like U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Census Bureau isn’t the most niche platform out there, but it’s not as common as Salesforce, SAP, or Oracle. (Trust us, there are some pretty niche connectors out there. We’ve integrated with them!)

As you search for a reliable way to sync data from U.S. Census Bureau to Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or PostgreSQL, it’s important to understand your options.

Problem: The options for a U.S. Census Bureau connector aren’t great

Historically, your options for a U.S. Census Bureau data pipeline were limited:

Read the U.S. Census Bureau API documentation and build a custom integration yourself
Find a way to build and maintain your custom connector within Fivetran
Hire a data consultant to build and maintain the data pipeline
Ignore the request, give up on accessing the data, and don’t build the dashboard

Solution: Portable already has a prebuilt U.S. Census Bureau connector

Without writing a line of code you can start syncing data from U.S. Census Bureau to your data warehouse, today. Here are four common U.S. Census Bureau integrations you can try out.

Once you sync data with Portable, it’s easy to get the information you need. Our team is always excited to add new connectors, new endpoints, and new fields —development is fast and entirely free.

How Do You Create Value From a U.S. Census Bureau ETL Pipeline?

At Portable, we handle the development and maintenance of your U.S. Census Bureau pipeline, so you can focus on creating business value with analytics, automation, and external data products.

Here are a few ideas for sales analytics dashboards to help get you started creating value from your U.S. Census Bureau integration.

Open Tasks (By Assignee) —If your team is analyzing tasks, it's easy to build a quick summary of open tasks for each assignee to help to keep everyone in the loop.
Overdue Tasks (By Project) —Every once in a while, tasks are delayed. Setting up alerts or notifications when tasks are overdue within a project can help your team stay on track.
Average Time To Complete Tasks (By Month Created) —For operational teams and support teams, the completion time for tasks can be a great metric to help streamline processes. By showing trend data of the average time to complete tasks, you can better understand how your operational initiatives are working and consistently strive to support clients in real time.

During the process of converting raw data into insights, you should check out tools like DBT, Coalesce, and Narrator for transformation, and tools like Mode, Looker, Tableau, Retool, and Power BI to generate dashboards and insights for users.

What Are the Benefits of Using Portable for Your U.S. Census Bureau ETL Workflow?

In addition to providing a reliable, no-code, simple integration from U.S. Census Bureau to your data warehouse, Portable includes all of the functionality you would expect from a best-in-class data integration tool:

300+ data source connectors
Support for the major data warehouses as destinations
Unlimited data volumes
Free development of new data sources
Email and Slack notifications
Hands-on support and maintenance

And in addition to U.S. Census Bureau, Portable offers over 300 other data sources. Some of the applications are widely used tools like Mailchimp, Zendesk, Twilio, Jira, or Asana, while other tools are much more industry-specific and nuanced.

Ready to Get Started? Sign up for Portable Today!

Pricing is simple, predictable, and based on connectors instead of data volume.

It’s free to sign up and start moving U.S. Census Bureau data.