If you live in a household in the Atlanta Metro region which makes less than $50k a year, chances are that 30% or more of your household income is going to pay either your rent or your mortgage. The map below, by census tract, shows those areas with the greatest affordability challenges in dark [...]
Ah, fall is in the air. The mornings are becoming increasingly crisp and cool, the stores are unpacking all of their Halloween merchandise, football season is in full swing, and metro Atlanta students returned to school six weeks ago! If your children are college age, returning to school this semester may have meant taking [...]
As the Southeast pulls together in the wake of Hurricane Irma, charitable giving is in the forefront of our minds at ARC. This week's Monday Mapday highlights charitable contributions by zip code in metro Atlanta. Overall, metro Atlantans are a charitable bunch, with zip codes shaded in dark brown in the map below representing [...]
This week's Monday Mapday explores time spent online in the Atlanta metropolitan statistical area (MSA). The map below shows the percentage of the adults,* by zip code, that spent an average of 2 to 4.9 hours online in a typical day. Areas shaded in dark blue (including areas of Cherokee, Cobb, DeKalb, Fayette, Forsyth, [...]
DO NOT VIEW THE ECLIPSE WITHOUT SPECIAL "ECLIPSE GLASSES." CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS. A full solar eclipse will be visible across the continental United States today, with the best viewing in Georgia in the northeastern counties of Fannin, Union, Towns, White, Rabun, Habersham, Stephens, Franklin, Hart, and Elbert. In these counties the Moon will completely [...]
When viewed at the zip code level, average home sale listing prices between 2012 and 2017 have increased everywhere across the 20-county Atlanta Metro Region*. The magnitude of increase, however, exhibits significant variation based on where within the region a home was sold, with the largest increases being shown in blue and the smallest [...]
ESRI's diversity index provides an estimate of how likely two people, selected at random from the same geographic area, will belong to different racial or ethnic groups. Available down to the block group level, an index value of 0 means an area exhibits "no diversity" and 100 means that there is "complete diversity." The [...]
This map shows average health care costs, by county, in the Atlanta metropolitan statistical area (MSA). Average health care costs include both health insurance and medical care costs. Areas shaded in dark blue (including Cherokee, Cobb, Fayette, Forsyth, and Fulton counties) represent average higher health care costs, ranging from nearly $6,000 to just under [...]
In keeping with the housing affordability theme, today's Monday Mapday explores metro Atlanta's rental market. Though rents are on the rise throughout the metro area, rental increases are greatest in the suburbs (as shown in the map below). Areas shaded in dark blue in North Fulton County show the highest percentage change in average [...]
This map compares the most recent healthcare coverage data from the U.S. Census Bureau for the 100 largest U.S. metro areas, showing the percentage of population with no health insurance coverage. The areas in blue are metros with the highest uninsured rates, where 11.7% - 31.0% of residents do not have health insurance. Source: [...]
