Special Features
Reports, maps, and infographics about special topics.
Travel after I-85 reopening- back to normal?
Now that I-85 has reopened, is traffic back to normal? The May 2017 Regional Snapshot analyzes how the I-85 closure impacted travel throughout Atlanta. The charts below use INRIX travel speed data to take an updated [...]
Learn4Life: Metro Atlanta Regional Education Partnership
Learn4Life: l4lmetroatlanta.org State of Education in Metro Atlanta | Baseline Report 2017 What is Learn4Life? Learn4Life (L4L) is the Metro Atlanta Regional Education Partnership, a collaborative effort that brings together school [...]
Changing travel patterns: Current and historic speeds on select roads
Commuters driving through Atlanta may be experiencing slower speeds and more congestion following the I-85 bridge collapse; here, we analyze travel conditions on specific roadways for Monday, April 10. With school back in session [...]
Growing or Slowing? Population Change in Georgia’s Counties (2016 numbers)
The most recent county-level data from the Census Bureau (2016 Population Estimates, released last week) allow us to analyze ttrends in county, metro, and state population numbers. A new article from Governing shows that [...]
Foreign-Born Population: A Kick-Off to ARC’s Global Advisory Panel
As part of the kick-off for Atlanta Regional Commission’s New Voices: Global Advisory Panel we are sharing updated data about trends in the foreign-born population for metro Atlanta. These charts serve as an introduction [...]
Crime in the Region: Perception (Metro Atlanta Speaks) + Trends (FBI Reports)
A growing share of respondents to the Metro Atlanta Speaks survey rate crime as the biggest problem for the region; yet, the survey also reveals that respondents consider crime a greater issue at the [...]