Each year, on the first Monday in September, Atlanta joins the nation in celebrating Labor Day, honoring the American labor movement of the 19th century. The first Labor Day was celebrated September 5, 1882 and featured a street parade "to exhibit to the public 'the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and [...]
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, [...]
This week's Friday Factday explores the 10-year forecasted replacement demand for the twenty top occupations [as determined by location quotient (LQ)] for the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). These data are sourced from Chmura Economics and are part of their JobsEQ Occupational Snapshot. Replacement demand is a component of total occupational demand that comprises openings due [...]
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 [...]
The uptick in construction activity since the great recession has generated many new residential building projects in the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). While some of the new housing in these projects has been designated affordable, it appears that these newer constructed buildings are demanding higher rents than their older counterparts. The first chart below [...]
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 [...]
Last month, Pew Research Center released an article highlighting national growth in manufacturing output (as measured by GDP) despite a decline in manufacturing employment ("Most Americans unaware that as U.S. manufacturing jobs have disappeared, output has grown," July 25, 2017). Do these trends hold true for metro Atlanta? The state of Georgia? This week's [...]
It’s that time of year again! Today ARC releases its 2017 Population Estimates. How has the region changed over the last year? How does our recent growth compare with years (and decades) past? Where are we experiencing the greatest growth in the region? Read on for the answers to these questions, and more… Highlights [...]
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 [...]
The Georgia Department of Education (GA DOE) recently released the Georgia Milestones results for the 2016-17 school year1. Overall, students across the state showed progress in math and language arts, albeit with a slight downward turn in science scores (when all grade levels are considered)2. For this Friday Factday, we will compare 3rd grade [...]
