Author Archive | Kristen Carney

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The US Department of Health & Human Services has released the 2013 Federal Poverty Guidelines. We’ve updated both the Cubit web app as well as the Cubit Quick Reports to reflect the 2013 Federal Poverty guidelines.   Here are the 2013 Federal Poverty Guidelines. 2013 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE 48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE DISTRICT [...]