Before You Trust the Map

This place first here in this report

• US Census BureauDOCUS Census Bureau · 2023The government's ongoing household survey. Every figure is an estimate from a sample, not a headcount, so it carries a margin of error (MOE) — the plus-or-minus range the true number likely falls within.
• Walk ScoreDOCWalk Score · currentA 0–100 score estimating how many daily errands can be done on foot from an address, based on distance to amenities. It does not measure sidewalks, safety, or shade.
• Bureau of Labor StatisticsDOCBureau of Labor Statistics · currentThe federal government's monthly unemployment figures, only available at the county level here — too coarse to describe this specific tract's job picture.
• Google Places APIDOCGoogle Places API · currentLive business and place listings from Google's map data. Fast and current, but crowd-sourced — ratings, hours, and even whether a place still exists can be wrong.
• CDC PLACESDOCCDC PLACES · 2023The CDC's model-based estimates of health conditions (depression, food insecurity, checkups, etc.) for small areas where direct surveys don't exist. Modeled from patterns, not a local survey of this tract.
• Urban Institute Education DataDOCUrban Institute Education Data · 2022Directory and enrollment records for public schools, assembled by the Urban Institute from the federal Common Core of Data. It can tell you which schools serve an area and roughly how large they are — not whether they are good, safe, or a fit for a particular child.
• FFIEC/CFPB HMDA Data BrowserDOCFFIEC/CFPB HMDA Data Browser · 2022Federal mortgage-application data that shows who is lending, to whom, and where — used to detect modern lending gaps. Not available for this particular tract.
• GDELT ProjectDOCGDELT Project · 90dA machine-read index of news coverage worldwide, useful for spotting whether a place has been in the press recently. It counts mentions, not truth — a spike can be a festival, a crime, or a wire-service error.
• US Religion Census (ARDA)DOCUS Religion Census (ARDA) · 2020A decennial census of congregations by denomination, counted at the county level. It shows overall religious adherence for the surrounding county — it can't be assigned to any single church or neighborhood.US Religion Census 2020 (ASARB), via the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA).
• Mapping Inequality (University of Richmond)DOCMapping Inequality (University of Richmond) · 1930sIn the 1930s, a federal agency graded neighborhoods A–D for mortgage risk — grade D ('redlined') areas were starved of lending for decades. This is that historical grade, not a judgment on anyone living here now.Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America (University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab).
• Opportunity InsightsDOCOpportunity Insights · 2018Tracks what actually happened to children who grew up in a given tract decades later — their adult income and other outcomes. It measures the neighborhood's historical effect on mobility, not who lives there today.Opportunity Insights / Opportunity Atlas (Chetty et al.), Harvard Dataverse.
• Eviction Lab at Princeton UniversityDOCEviction Lab at Princeton University · 2000-2018Princeton's national compilation of eviction court filings. It is the best public picture of housing displacement we have, but coverage varies by county and a filing is not the same as a family actually leaving.Eviction Lab at Princeton University.
• IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master FileDOCIRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File · 2025The IRS's public list of registered nonprofits and churches. Confirms an organization's legal identity but says nothing about how active or healthy it is.
• US Census Bureau Building Permits SurveyDOCUS Census Bureau Building Permits Survey · 2023The Census Bureau's count of new residential building permits, a leading signal of construction activity. Permits are issued, not houses finished — and the series is reported for permit-issuing places, often coarser than a tract.
• US Census Bureau County Business PatternsDOCUS Census Bureau County Business Patterns · 2022Annual Census counts of business establishments, employment, and payroll by industry and county. Strong for the local job mix, silent on who holds those jobs or what they pay a household in this tract.
• CDC/ATSDRDOCCDC/ATSDR · 2022Ranks every tract 0–100 on how vulnerable it would be in a disaster or crisis, based on poverty, housing, language, and other factors. Higher percentile means more vulnerable relative to other tracts nationally.
• Brown University Longitudinal Tract DatabaseDOCBrown University Longitudinal Tract Database · 1970-2020A research dataset that stitches 50 years of Census data onto consistent tract boundaries, so you can track how a neighborhood's population and racial makeup shifted decade by decade.Longitudinal Tract Database (LTDB), Brown University S4 (Logan, Xu, and Stults). Estimates on 2010 tract boundaries.