The locations in dark blue had the greatest increase in the number of mortgage loans originated for buying homes per square mile from 2012 to 2015. The greatest increase in loans were concentrated in the northern parts of the City of Atlanta, extending up through Fulton, DeKalb, Forsyth, Gwinnett, and Cobb Counties. Source: HMDA, [...]
To measure linguistic isolation, the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey asks respondents how well they speak English. This map shows the top 20% of "neighborhoods" (census tracts are used to represent neighborhoods) that have the highest percentage of residents who speak English less than "very well," using the mapping tools available through Neighborhood [...]
April 22, 2017 marks the 47th anniversary of Earth Day, which began in 1970 as a national event to educate the public about the environment. In the spirit of Earth Day, this week's Friday Factday explores a selection of environmental statistics for metro Atlanta.
As part of April's Regional Snapshot, the interactive storymap "Connecting With Parks - A Regional Perspective" combines maps, images, and text to tell stories about metro Atlanta's greenspace through five categories: “A River Runs Through Us” tells the story of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area “Preserving Our Ties to Nature” features information regarding [...]
Exploring the Story of Metro Atlanta’s Greenspaces The April 2017 Regional Snapshot introduces a new interactive tool - the Connecting with Parks storymap - developed by ARC in response to a request from Park Pride seeking metrics to share at their 16th Annual Parks & Greenspace Conference. Highlights: ARC has been active in greenspace [...]
For today's Friday Factday, we take a look at spatial patterns in high school graduation across metro Atlanta. For more information, visit Neighborhood Nexus at https://neighborhoodnexus.org.
The most recent county-level data from the Census Bureau (2016 Population Estimates, released last week) allow us to analyze ttrends in county, metro, and state population numbers. A new article from Governing shows that urban counties in the Northern U.S. and Midwest have slowed in their rates of population growth, and in some cases [...]
Happy St. Patrick's Day! To celebrate the greenest day of the year, this Friday Factday looks at Irish-American heritage and economic connections in metro Atlanta and Georgia. For national-level trends, check out the U.S. Census Bureau Facts for Features page.
Our recent Regional Snapshot: Digital Skills- Through the Burning Glass uses Burning Glass Labor Insight data to assess job postings seeking general digital and advanced digital skills– at national, peer metro, and Atlanta metro levels. This map shows the top 15 hiring regions (MSA) for jobs seeking candidates with digital skills over the last 12 [...]
What and How Important Are Digital Skills? The March 2017 Regional Snapshot uses Burning Glass Labor Insight data to assess numeric trends and demand characteristics of job postings seeking general digital and advanced digital skills-- at national, peer metro, and Atlanta metro levels. Highlights: In Atlanta for 2016, 65 percent of postings (about 367,000) [...]
