Monday Mapday: Population Growth After the Recession–The Census Tract Story
Last Thursday, December 7th, the Census Bureau released an annual estimate series that we data nerds await with near-bated breath--almost like a little kid waiting for Santa (yes, really...yes, we know). Anyway, those data are the 5-year estimates from the American Community Survey. What makes them so useful is that they are reported at [...]
Monday Mapday: A Major Trend of Minority Growth
Gwinnett County was once a smattering of predominantly white small towns, interspersed with acres of farmland. The County has however experienced significant changes over the last few decades, and is the focus of a recent article in the AJC exploring the impacts of and tensions inherent in those trends that have resulted in Gwinnett [...]
Friday Factday: New SAIPE Income and Poverty Data–
The Right Direction, yet Challenges Remain
Incomes in the Atlanta metro area are growing again...just not very quickly, and a great deal more in some counties than in others. Data from the last three years show recovery from the slight declines or (at best) stagnation of the 2000 through 2013 period. And it is all relative, as median household incomes [...]
Monday Mapday: Online Shopping in the Metro Region
It's Cyber Monday!! According to USA Today, citing Adobe Analytics data, Cyber Monday sales in the U.S. are expected to reach $6.6 billion this year, an increase of 16.5% from 2016. Online shopping is growing at such a rate in recent years that about every shopping day may one day be "cyber day". According [...]
Monday Mapday: Native Americans in the Metro Region
In 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed a joint congressional resolution to designate November 1990 as "National American Indian Heritage Month." Since 1994, similar presidential proclamations have been issued every year. Today, the month is recognized as "American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month." The map below provides an estimate of the American Indian [...]
Friday Factday: New BLS Job Data–Atlanta Slowing but Growing
The Atlanta metro economy is in really good shape, and we rank highly among competing metros in terms of job growth. In the latest data, higher wage job sectors such as Professional & Business Services and Information show strong year over year (YOY) increases of 6% and 4% respectively. But our overall YOY rate [...]
Monday Mapday: New FCC Data on Broadband Access
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently released data on fixed broadband access. The data are at the census tract level across the entire United States. Below are maps of the data for the Atlanta Metro region--showing the spatial patterns of access. The first map provides a baseline overview of access to fixed broadband of [...]
