Community Insights
Community Insights includes over 400 demographic and socioeconomic metrics from our People & Vulnerabilities Foundation. We've standardized, transformed, and aggregated key Census data to make it easier for you to work with them in your assessments.
The Community Insights schema and layers in Analyst provide a granular view of community and household characteristics to better understand the area's demographics and socioeconomic characteristics. Use these details to contextualize your primary assessment with community information and social vulnerability metrics.
Community Insights Layers
When you need further insights about the surrounding community not available in the Location Insights, these layers include a curated set of Census data at supported geographies.
These layers reflect the metrics included in the Community Insights schema, which you can review online or export directly from Analyst
You can work with Community Insights Layers in several ways:
Core Insight – As a Core Insight, your Analyst organization already has default Community Insights layers included in it. You can add these layers to any project. These default options are named Community Insights - <census unit>. You can't rename these default layers.
A specified set of locations – You can run a location analysis on any point or line layer in Analyst, which can be created in several ways. In all scenarios, you'll receive layers named:
Community Insights - census unit for layer name – for points or lines.
Community Insights - buffered distance for layer name – for buffers.
Community Insights – Polygon for layer name – for polygons.
Unlike the default layers, you can change their names. You can view the layer information to verify when the analysis was run. These details can be helpful if you need to re-run an analysis and need to differentiate the layers.
Community Insights Schema
We're providing a copy of the complete Community Insights schema for reference. When working with data schemas, you can navigate information in them by:
Searching for terms on the page using Command ⌘+F (Mac) or Ctrl+F (Windows).
Clicking in the schema window and then copying and pasting the content into a spreadsheet application to look at the details more closely.
See Supported Geographies to verify the geographies included in this schema.
Point Locations
When working with point locations, we provide schemas for census geographies. If you have included a buffer in your analysis, then you also receive a schema for that buffer, which follows the same structure as the census schema.
Census Schema
See Supported Geographies to verify the geographies included in this schema.
Line Locations
When working line locations, you receive a census schema (the same census schema returned for point locations). If you have included a buffer in your analysis, then you also receive a schema for that buffer, which also uses the census schema.
Polygons
When working with polygons, you receive a census schema (the same census schema returned for point locations), and a polygon schema which includes a single line for each included polygon using the census schema. If you have included a buffer in your analysis, then you also receive a schema for that buffer, which also uses the census schema.