With a new school year starting, education is on a lot of minds...including ours! So, for this month's Regional Snapshot, we are taking a glimpse into education in metro Atlanta and exploring the various factors that impact a student's educational success. Check out the highlights below, but we encourage you to read the full report here. Overall, only [...]
The blue areas in this map highlight neighborhoods in metro Atlanta that have a high percentage of residents age 65 and older living in poverty. While the urban core appears to have high concentrations of seniors living poverty, there are pockets of poverty spread throughout the region. Data source: 2010-2014 American Community Survey via Neighborhood Nexus [...]
Midtown Transportation is a Transportation Management Association (TMA) that works with employers in midtown Atlanta to address local transportation issues and provide incentives to encourage the use of alternative commute methods like carpooling and public transit. Using the U.S. Census Bureau's OnTheMap tool, TMAs like Midtown Transportation can better understand commute patterns. The data below uses [...]
This map shows the top twenty metros that had the greatest increase in building permits submitted in 2015 (through September) compared to the same time period in 2010. The metros in darker circles had the greatest increase in permits compared to 2010; Atlanta ranks 5th.
Where were the worst traffic jams during August? This map shows the top 10 bottlenecks along metro Atlanta highways for the month of August (click image to enlarge). A bottleneck is a segment of roadway where the traffic speed has dropped below 60% of the historical referenced speed for at least 5 minutes. INRIX ranks [...]
More Douglas County residents think Transportation is the biggest problem in metro Atlanta compared to other issues. Seventy-two percent think public transit is Very Important to the region. As we prepare to gauge the perspectives of residents in the new 2016 Metro Atlanta Speaks Survey (results will be shared later this year), let's revisit what Douglas County residents [...]
This map shows neighborhoods in metro Atlanta where the mean travel time to work is between 30 - 45 minutes, and where 85% or more of commuters drive alone to work. Driving alone on a long commute is considered a health factor by County Health Rankings. "A 2012 study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found [...]
In metro Atlanta, the average family size is 3.41 (a "family" consists of at least two people living in the same household who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption). This map shows the neighborhoods in metro Atlanta that have the largest average family size, higher than the metro average of 3.41. Gwinnett County and Clayton County [...]
Using The Center for Neighborhood Technology’s Housing +Transportation (H+T®) Affordability Index mapping tools, the images below show greenhouse gas emissions throughout metro Atlanta. The data use transportation and household factors to model annual greenhouse gas emissions per acre (left) and per household (right). The emissions per acre map shows higher concentrations in the urban core and along [...]
We recently looked at housing affordability in metro areas across the U.S. and in neighborhoods in metro Atlanta. This map shows the cities in Georgia where 52 percent or more of housing units are occupied by renters, and where 48 to 85 percent of renters pay more than 30 percent of their household income towards housing costs [...]
