In Fall 2015, there were around 737,000 students attending schools in the fourteen school districts in metro Atlanta. This interactive tool looks at student enrollment by school district, grade, and individual schools. Click through the tabs and use the filtering and highlighting tools to explore the numbers for your school district (hover over points on [...]
We recently shared a map that shows location affordability (based on housing and transportation costs) for a Type 1 Family (a family of four, including two working commuters, with a median annual household income of $57,740). This new map shows both the Type 1 Family data and affordability for a Type 7 Family: a moderate income [...]
Georgia Milestones is an assessment used by the Georgia Department of Education that replaced the CRCT (Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests) in the spring of 2015. The Milestones test includes various subjects- this map looks at 8th grade math, a key middle school benchmark. Milestones has four levels of performance: Beginning Learner (which is considered “failing”), Developing Learner, Proficient Learner [...]
For 50 years, or so, ARC has been developing population estimates for the Atlanta region. While growth is still not as strong as the late 1990s or the early 2000s, the region did experience the largest single-year population increase since the Great Recession. Here are the highlights of ARC’s 2016 population estimates: The 10-county Atlanta [...]
Where were the worst traffic jams during July? This map shows the top 10 bottlenecks along metro Atlanta highways for the month of July. 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 bottlenecks based on their [...]
In most parts of metro Atlanta, teen birth rates have been decreasing. This map looks at the change in birth rates from 2000-2004 (an average for the 5 year period) to 2010-2014 (another average). The red areas highlighted had an increase in teen birth rates. In these areas, the increase in birth rates for teen mothers [...]
Did the Atlanta region grow faster in the 40s or the 80s? This video shows the peak period for population growth for each of the Atlanta region's ten counties. The lines show the average percent increase/decrease by decade. As a whole, the region had the largest percentage gains in the 1950s, growing around 38 percent [...]
This map was developed by the Atlanta Regional Commission using data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Location Affordability Index to show the affordability of housing and transportation costs, as a percentage of income. This map uses census tracts in metro Atlanta to show spatial trends in affordability. This map evaluates transportation and [...]
This map compares housing affordability in the 100 largest U.S. metros. One way to measure housing affordability is to consider the percentage of income that is spent on housing costs. Housing is generally considered unaffordable when housing costs exceed 30% of income. The colored circles on the map represent the metro areas and indicate what percentage of housing [...]
Today marks the last day of AmericasMart, one of downtown Atlanta's big events. How has the influx of visitors affected traffic downtown? While we can't correlate traffic conditions directly with AmericasMart opening times, we can look at general traffic conditions nearby to get an idea of roadway congestion. The charts below use INRIX data to take [...]
