PLAN 763: Urban Neighborhood Revitalization: Sources of Data

NC demographic and economic data.

The Woods & Poole Economics, Inc. database contains more than 900 economic and demographic variables for every county in the United States for every year from 1970 to 2040.

Graphs of the latest real estate prices and sales trends, recent home sales, a home value estimator, hundreds of thousands of maps, satellite photos, etc.

Esri Business Analyst Online (BAO) is a Web-based solution that makes custom site evaluation and market analysis fast and easy.

Annual data on home lending activity which can be combined with census information for analyses.

From the Census Bureau, shows where people live and where they work in great detail. It also provides companion reports on age, earnings, industry distributions, race, ethnicity, education, and sex.

NC demographic, health, education, and a variety of other data.

NHGIS provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2012.

Enterprise-grade data for every neighborhood and city in the U.S.

The data is from EASI Analytics, Mediamark Research Inc., and Simmons Study of Media Markets and is derived from government and other sources. Variables include demographics, housing, income, retail sales, consumer expenditures, consumer price index, quality of life, employment and establishments by industry, historical census data for 1980, 1990, and 2000 in 2000 boundaries, 2006 estimates, 2011 projections, and EASI/MRI market research data.

The most comprehensive online source of crime information.

Walk Score's mission is to promote walkable neighborhoods, one of the simplest and best solutions for the environment, our health, and our economy

Real estate sales site with data related to home values (indices, comparisons), rent, and various other metrics.

This guide is intended to serve as a helpful reference tool for the data sets available
from the HUD USER Clearinghouse, and on the HUD website at www.huduser.org. It contains brief descriptions of each data set along with its Web address, release data,
format(s), and the timeframe to which the data applies.

HUD USER provides interested researchers with access to the original data sets generated by PD&R-sponsored data collection efforts, including the American Housing Survey, HUD median family income limits, as well as microdata from research initiatives on topics such as housing discrimination, the HUD-insured multifamily housing stock, and the public housing population.

HUD's Neighborhood Stabilization Program (www.hud.gov/nsp) provides emergency assistance to state and local governments to acquire and redevelop foreclosed properties that might otherwise become sources of abandonment and blight within their communities.

The Choice Neighborhoods program supports locally driven strategies to address struggling neighborhoods with distressed public or HUD-assisted housing through a comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation. Local leaders, residents, and stakeholders, such as public housing authorities, cities, schools, police, business owners, nonprofits, and private developers, come together to create and implement a plan that transforms distressed HUD housing and addresses the challenges in the surrounding neighborhood. The program is designed to catalyze critical improvements in neighborhood assets, including vacant property, housing, services and schools.

Picture of Subsidized Households describes the nearly 5 million households living in HUD-subsidized housing in the United States. This page provides characteristics of assisted housing units and residents, summarized at the national, state, public housing agency (PHA), project,census tract, county, Core-Based Statistical Area and city levels as downloadable files.

Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Qualified Census Tracts must have 50 percent of households with incomes below 60 percent of the Area Median Gross Income (AMGI) or have a poverty rate of 25 percent or more. Difficult Development Areas are designated by HUD and are based on Fair Market Rents, Income Limits, the 2010 Census counts, and 2006 to 2010 5-year American Community Survey data when they becomes available. Maps of Qualified Census Tracts are available at: http://qct.huduser.org/QCTGIS/USMainLand/Map.aspx

The U.S. Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) portal page for geospatial data and map services. The resources linked from this page enables you to view and access HUD geospatial web services in Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Key Markup Language (KGL), and ESRI-compatible formats, download key HUD datasets, view static and interactive maps of housing market and demographic characteristics, and access related GIS resources.

An online tool from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) provide consumers with easy access to public mortgage information collected under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). The tool enables greater transparency by helping inform people of trends in their local mortgage markets.

Data that allows all local stakeholders to track quality of life and provision of services in Durham neighborhoods.

Searchable map based presentation of crime data in Durham.

This is a link to a comprehensive guide from the UNC-CH libraries on census data, including information about mapping census data.

A reference from the U.S. government on census data, including a glossary of census terminology.