City & Regional Planning Research Guide: GIS & Data

This resource provides a wealth of data for individual Metropolitan Areas, Central Cities and Suburbs. Data includes: data from the 1970,1980, 1990 and 2000 Censuses, Current Employment Statististics for City Residents, Extracts from County Business Patterns (jobs, # of businesses), Building Permits and more.

From the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, provides access to population, income, GDP, and more in a consistent geographical basis from 1969-2010.

From the U.S. Department and Labor, provides a quarterly count of employment and wages by industry at county, MSA, state and national levels.

Resources from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for calculating "ratios that compare the concentration of a resource or activity, such as employment, in a defined area to that of a larger area or base."

Developed by HUD to estimate risk for foreclosure in census tracts.

One Stop Source for environmental and natural resources data.

Improve your GIS skills with a self-paced online course from the ESRI Virtual Campus. See the list of courses available for UNC-CH affiliates (current faculty, staff and students).

Get more information about the services offered in Davis, find guides to locating spatial data on campus and on the web, and check out our FAQ featuring short videos of common tasks to get help using GIS.

Create ArcGIS maps online.

From the Census Bureau, shows where people live and where they work in great detail. For more information, please view the tutorials here.