New Resources: Policy Map

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Policy Map

This resource was acquired in December 2021.

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• What do you like or not like about it?
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PolicyMap offers easy-to-use online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the US. From the classroom to the boardroom, thousands of organizations trust PolicyMap to find the right data for their research, market studies, business planning, site selection, grant applications and impact analysis.

At PolicyMap,  we believe in the power of data to create positive change in communities and markets.  We combine a curated, comprehensive geographic data library with simple, powerful mapping and analytics tools. Whether you have mapping experience or not, with PolicyMap, you can visualize data to understand communities, make data-driven decisions, and solve problems. We offer  tens of thousands of customizable maps, including data on real estate, broadband infrastructure, demographics, and more from sources like Zillow, the Census, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and GreatSchools.

We make it our job to curate, normalize and make understandable data from across multiple siloed agencies and supplement that data with data we license from third party providers or create ourselves. We offer access to this data via an interactive mapping and analytics platform in both a public edition as well as through subscriptions and enterprise licenses. Our platform, launched in 2007, is almost completely overhauled and relies on the latest mapping technologies. It is currently available in a beta version.

• DEMOGRAPHICS: Population, race and ethnicity, age, sex, language, foreign born, migration and immigration, households, families, elections, religion
• INCOMES & SPENDING: Income, poverty, federal tax returns, economic mobility, location affordability, area median income, low mod, bankruptcy
• HOUSING: Home sales, home values, rental units, residential buildings, vacancy, affordability, cost burdens, federal housing programs and more
• LENDING: Mortgage lending by loan type, race and ethnicity and income, small business loans, farm loans, banking
• QUALITY OF LIFE: Crime, environment, transit access, commute to work, energy, food access, libraries and nonprofits
• ECONOMY: Unemployment, labor force, detailed workforce demographics, jobs and industries
• EDUCATION: School enrollments and populations, educational attainment, revenues and expenditures, school and school district performance
• HEALTH: Obesity, diabetes, infectious diseases, births, young mothers, prenatal care, uninsured populations, federal programs, health resources and local foods
• FEDERAL GUIDELINES: New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC), Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)