Web Wednesday: Trick-or-Treaters — Tiny Trickle or Fearful Flood?
Trick-or-treaters might SEEM to be everywhere, but do the data say that it's an illusion?
Friday Factday: Average Age at Death
For this Friday the 13th, we tackled a topic that scares us all: mortality. A look at the average age of death in the 10-county area.
Monday Mapday: Back to School, 2019
It's back-to-school season once again, so what better time to take a look at the population of children across the metro area? The maps that follow offer insight into which counties and Census tracts have the most children and provide clues about social conditions these kids might experience. Where do [...]
Monday Mapday: Focus on Older Atlantans
A series of interactive maps explores where metro Atlantans age 65 and older live, where they are more likely to be living in poverty and what areas of the metro see higher rates of older adults with a disability.
Web Wednesday: Three Things You Didn’t Know About Age-Friendly Communities
Communities that are inclusive to all age groups offer benefits to everyone.
Web Wednesday: Opportunities for Connecting the Disconnected (Youth)
The unemployment story is getting better recently -- for all age groups. That's to say, the unemployment rates are lower across the board. But they aren't better equally for everyone. Rates are highest for the 16 to 24 age group, which were up to 20 percent nationally at the height of the recession and [...]
Childhood Poverty in Metro Atlanta, 1990-2017
Generational poverty is an ongoing problem in the metro area. Here's a look at how things have (and haven't) changed since 1990. Editor's note: This post was updated on May 16, 2019 to correct for errors in the 10-county area data and 2017 county-level data.
Monday Mapday: New DASH Tool to Visualize Equitable Target Areas (ETAs)
How do local governments decide where to invest public funds? Better yet, how can local governments help ensure that these investments are distributed to projects in an equitable manner? Unfortunately, there is no single, easy answer. However, the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) has created an interactive equity analysis tool to help address these questions. [...]
Monday Mapday: Broadband Access Varies Across the Region and State
It's Cyber Monday and consumers are finding deals on goods and services purchased online. Internet access, for many, has become a basic utility like electricity, phone, and water without which a household might find it difficult to fully operate within our increasingly connected and connection-dependent world. Nonetheless according to a recent Pew Research Report, [...]