Place-based exegesis & research
See your neighborhood more clearly.
A neighborhood has a history that was done to it, and most of that history is public record.
A twelve-part place report for one address: census envelopes, the 1930s HOLC grade, local transitions, congregations and civic anchors, and a ten-stop prayer walk built from real places.
What your report includes
01
Who Lives Here
Demographic patterns, age distributions, household composition, ethnic diversity shifts
02
Neighborhood History
Historical foundations, past shifts, zoning and development origins
03
Housing & Economic Realities
Rent vs. own ratios, affordability pressure, median income trends
04
Community Assets & Gathering
Churches, local nonprofits, third places, parks, and schools
05
Change & Transition
Who is arriving, who is being displaced, emerging neighborhood tensions
06
Missional Questions
Guiding prompts for walking, prayer, listening, and relational presence
Curious what the final intelligence synthesis looks like?
Read a complete report firstWhat it will not do
The report is built to be trusted where it is thin, not only where it is strong. Where a figure is statistically suppressed, outside a source's coverage, or simply not retrieved, it renders that cause in place of the number — it never prints a zero it cannot defend. A prayer-walk stop with no verified match renders as a category and says no place was found, so the report never names somewhere that may not exist. Blank is a coverage gap, not an absence. Most figures are survey estimates and models rather than exact counts, some describe the surrounding tract and some the whole county, and every one carries its source, its vintage and a confidence tier on the page where it appears.
Price and access
A report is bought with an email address and a card, and it is delivered by email. No account is needed — ever. Saving the report to a profile is offered once, after delivery, and reading it never depends on that. Anyone who can read a report can forward it to up to five people, who need no account of their own.
How it is built
Your address becomes a point on a map and the government codes every other source keys off. From there the report draws on American Community Survey five-year estimates at tract level, the Mapping Inequality HOLC collection, the Opportunity Atlas, CDC PLACES health estimates, and local place data. What is modelled is labelled as modelled, and the full ledger names every source and its vintage.
Methodology & sources ledger ↗Questions people ask first
- What is the Neighborhood Intelligence Report?
- The Neighborhood Intelligence Report is a twelve-part, place-specific study of a single street address. It combines census estimates for the surrounding tract, the neighborhood's 1930s HOLC grade, historical transitions, nearby congregations and civic anchors, and a prayer walk built from real places within about two miles.
- What data does the report use?
- The report draws on American Community Survey five-year estimates at census-tract level, the Mapping Inequality HOLC map collection, the Opportunity Atlas, CDC PLACES health estimates, and local place data. Every figure carries its source, its vintage, and a confidence tier on the page where it appears.
- What does the report do when it does not know something?
- It says so. Where a value is statistically suppressed, outside a source's coverage, or simply not retrieved, the report renders that cause in place of the number rather than printing a zero. A prayer-walk category with no verified match renders as a category and says no place was found, so the report never names somewhere that may not exist.
- Do I need an account to buy a report?
- No. A report is bought with an email address and a card, and it is delivered by email. Saving the report to a profile is offered once, after delivery, and reading the report never depends on it.
- Can I share a report with my team?
- Yes. Anyone who can read a report can forward it to up to five people with an optional note. Recipients open it through a tokenised link and need no account of their own.
- Which addresses are covered?
- Coverage is United States addresses, and the report needs a street address rather than a city on its own. Sources vary in what they reach: a tract below a suppression threshold, or a neighborhood outside the HOLC collection, renders that cause rather than a substitute figure.