Photo by Avel Chuklanov on Unsplash People who don’t work with demographic data day in and day out often don’t know that the US Census Bureau collects many other datasets in addition to the Decennial Census that we all have to fill out. The Census’ Building Permit Survey is a lesser known dataset but still a valuable resource. …
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Goodbye Starter Reports
Photo by Renee Fisher on Unsplash Summary Starter Reports have gone away. If you are a Starter Report customer, thank you! And I’m sorry. Check out the US Census Bureau’s Narrative Profiles as an alternative. Background In 2009, my co-founder, Anthony, and I quit our day jobs to build a web app for environmental engineers …
Votes Count! 56 Favorite Data Sources for Voter Statistics and Demographics
I’m starting to get requests for voting statistics as custom data pulls for early analyses for redistricting projects. Below is a roundup of my favorite sources of demographic data for voting-related projects. One note: the resources below don’t cover individual voter records. This list below is for voter data for geographic regions like all voters …
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52 Sources of Traffic Counts and AADT Data
Photo by Jake Blucker on Unsplash Updated: 11/2021. The only time of year that I’m actually happy about traffic is when we get updated traffic data for our reports. Below are 52 of my favorite sources of traffic data that you can use to visualize the AADT or annual average daily traffic that drives past …
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Top 100 Fastest Growing Cities in the US
Photo by Joey Csunyo on Unsplash Check out this map of the 100 fastest growing cities with populations of 50,000 or greater in the US from 2013 to 2014. The data are from the US Census Bureau’s 2014 Population Estimates that were released in May 2015. The top 20 fastest growing US cities from 2013 …