Civic Map
See the boundaries around you
Explore how local, state, and federal boundaries overlap around one place, without Democralink keeping your street address.
Independent, nonpartisan civic tools
Democracy is easier to navigate together
Map the boundaries around you, see the people who represent them, prepare for elections, and find groups working on things you care about.
Built for people across the political spectrum in the United States.
Explore without an account, then join for free to save your map, receive location-specific election information, and participate in groups.
See the Civic Map in action
Reveal overlapping civic systems
These live product samples move among three U.S. cities, pairing real basemaps with official boundary shapes. Your personal map brings the same layers together around your own civic location.
Four connected civic tools
Built to help you navigate our democracy
Representation
Know who serves each boundary
Find elected officials across levels of government, with office and contact details when reliable public data is available.
Election Guide
Prepare with local context
Bring available contests, candidates, deadlines, and voting locations into a guide connected to your civic home.
Civic Groups
Turn conversation into participation
Join or create groups with discussion, live chat, events, clear roles, and shared ways to make decisions.
Where the data comes from
Public information, with its source kept visible
Democralink combines data from established public and commercial providers. Coverage and freshness vary, so detailed views identify their source whenever that context is available.
- Civic boundaries and geography
- U.S. Census Bureau Geocoding Services and TIGERweb
- Maps and address matching
- Microsoft Azure Maps and TomTom
- Landing map samples
- USGS The National Map
- Federal representation
- Congress.gov, Library of Congress
- State representation
- Open States by Plural
- Available election information
- Google Civic Information API
Civic Groups
Where discussion becomes change
Civic Groups are for people who want a useful next step after a conversation. Discussion, live chat, events, visible roles, and shared decision tools give a group room to organize without requiring everyone to agree on everything.
A simple member path
- 1Choose a username and connect your civic location.
- 2Explore your map, representation, and available election guide.
- 3Join or create groups where people can discuss, plan events, and work together.
Free membership
Make Democralink your civic companion
Membership is free. Save your Civic Map, open your personal Election Guide, see your complete Representation, and take part in Civic Groups using a public identity you choose.