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My question is in regards to accessing demographic information through google maps api.

I can not find publicly available documentation for the "google maps demographics layer". Google does advertise that it has such a product, under google maps for business or enterprise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF4uCJ6EDZo . And I did find one other developer who is using this feature at his project Obtaining Hispanic Population % from Google Maps Demographics Layer - but the link he referred to was inaccessible. I guess that this is a feature only available to customers who have purchased the required google maps plans?

I need to confirm that such a feature exists and we have a known way to get access to the feature.

I am building a program that takes a list of addresses and places markers on each address. When a specific property marker (address) is clicked, I want it to show certain demographic information regarding that specific location (population, household income, households, growth, etc - in radiuses of 1,3, and 5 miles).

Thank you for taking the time to review and answer.

JBC
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Demographic layer in Google Maps JavaScript API was deprecated and removed some time ago. If you check the release notes, you will see the following message

17 March 2015

Fixed:

Issue 7756: Bug: Safari 8 performance regression

Removed demographics layer

Improvements to InfoWindow chrome

Source: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/releases

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