Standardized Community Characteristics
Starting with U.S. Census data, we perform variable transformations (adding, subtracting, and calculating percentages) to yield additional variables. This data provides information about community members and their homes.
This perspective consolidates census details to provide a foundation for building additional insights. Insights about government assistance eligibility require different community details than grid asset improvements. Both can rely on the same curated datasets about the impacted communities. These details enable you to:
Dig deeper than simple population metrics to understand the demographics and breakdown of a community.
Augment and supplement community details to derive more equitable perspectives and insights.
For example, we provide details about:
total population, households, land and water areas
education attainment, income, vehicle ownership
household composition, ownership, and heating methods
race and ethnicity, poverty, seniors, and Veterans
We provide information on these standardized community characteristics in two ways:
The Location Insights layer includes a subset of curated metrics from core housing and population characteristics.
The Community Insights layers included in Analyst provide over 400 standardized community characteristics, including:
housing characteristics: total households, household density, renter and owners, occupancy, heating types, structure age
population characteristics: total population, household composition, age, race, ethnicity, income, education, health, Veterans, vehicle ownership, languages spoken, internet access, poverty, median rent
We provide information on these standardized community characteristics in two ways:
The Municipal Bonds Insights layers includes the percent of households that own at least one vehicle and the median household income in the past 12 months. It also includes the percent of the population: over 65 years, less than a high school degree, below the federal poverty level (FPL), and without health insurance.
The Community Insights layers included in Analyst provide over 400 standardized community characteristics, including:
housing characteristics: total households, household density, renter and owners, occupancy, heating types, structure age
population characteristics: total population, household composition, age, race, ethnicity, income, education, health, Veterans, vehicle ownership, languages spoken, internet access, poverty, median rent