How to pull Building Construction Permit data for Counties from the US Census Bureau For a recent custom data request, I pulled building construction permit data for US counties and places (aka cities). Many people don’t realize that the US Census Bureau collects data on building permits by county and place, and makes it publicly available. [...]
Historic Home Sales Data by Zip Code
Recently for a custom data request project, I needed to find historic home sales data by zip code for the entire United States. While the US Census Bureau has median home value data for ZCTAs, you can’t get count of sales or sale prices for individual home sales data from the Census datasets. In addition [...]
Update to the Cubit App
Why Redesign The App? Several problems were coming up repeatedly in customer emails and user tests (where we observe a person using the app). We knew that some tables were too wide for the page. We learned that people wanted larger maps. We discovered later that some folks had a hard time navigating both the [...]
Where to Find the Most Current US Zip Code Income Data
Recently, I did a little research for a custom data request about zip code income data for the entire US. I was looking for both historic & current income data. I found 2 different data sources that both provide current & historic US zip code income data: the US Census Bureau and the Statistics of [...]
Apartment Statistics that you can get from the US Census
So you need apartment statistics. I often get requests for apartment data from folks who are: 1. researching where to locate a business that provides services to apartment dwellers like a washateria or car wash; or 2. researching where to buy or build a new apartment facility (and the bank has asked them to include [...]
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