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12/15/2021 | Updated Data | Disaster Declarations from FEMA are updated to December 2021. The data shows significant disasters across the country, and this update includes the recent disaster in Kentucky | Quality of Life > Environment and Disaster Risk Federal Guidelines > FEMA Disaster Declarations. |
12/10/2021 | Updated Data | The BLS Local Area Unemployment (LAU) data has been updated as of October 2021. The layer shows the preliminary unemployment/employment rate and number for October 2021 and the finalized September 2021 data. This data is updated monthly and available to all users. | Economy > Employment and Unemployment > Unemployment Monthly |
12/09/2021 | Updated Data | PolicyMap’s Medical Spending Estimates have been updated to 2019. These layers show estimated annual household spending on medical expenses such as doctor’s office visits, prescription medications, dental care, and more. | Health > Costs and Insurance |
11/12/2021 | Updated Data | The Medicare and Medicaid Opioid Claims data from CMS is updated to 2018. The data shows the number of claims, prescribers, rate of claims, change in the number of claims, and change in the claims rate for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. Also, this includes extended-release and long-acting opioid claims. Medicare is available at the zip, county, and state geographies, while Medicaid is only available at the state. | Health > Risk Factors > Opioid Use > Prescriptions |
11/11/2021 | Updated Data | The STD data from CDC is updated to 2019. The data shows the number, rate, and percent change (10yr, 5yr, and 1yr) for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis cases. | Health > Health Conditions > Infectious Disease |
11/05/2021 | Updated Data | The BLS Local Area Unemployment (LAU) data has been updated as of September 2021. The layer shows the preliminary unemployment/employment rate and number for September 2021 and the finalized August 2021 data. This data is updated monthly and available to all users. | Economy > Employment and Unemployment > Unemployment Monthly |
11/01/2021 | New Data | PolicyMap has just published Parks and Park Priority Areas from the Trust for Public Land. The park data is a national dataset of parks assembled by the Trust for Public Land, focusing primarily on urban parks. These parks include information on park ownership, and the demographics of the local population served by the parks. Park Priority Areas outline the sections of neighborhoods (defined as Census block groups) that cannot access a park within a 10 minute walk. These areas are ranked by a number of criteria, including health, heat, respiratory distress, race, and income of local residents. These criteria are combined into a single index, which is then ranked for each urban area | Quality of Life > Parks |
10/29/2021 | Updated Data | The Capital Magnet Fund (CMF) data from the CDFI fund is updated as of 2021. The data shows census tracts that qualify as Areas of Economic Distress, Rural Areas, Metro Areas (only for 2017), High Opportunity Area (new for 2021), and Low-Income Areas (new for 2021). The dataset is used in the application process for CDFIs applying to the CMF. | Federal Guidelines > Additional CDFI Fund Programs > Capital Magnet Fund |
10/21/2021 | Updated Data | The HIV Prevalence and HIV Diagnosis data from the CDC have been updated as of 2019. The layer shows the rate, number, and percent change (1yr and 5yr) of persons living with HIV or confirmed HIV diagnoses. | Health > Health Conditions > Infectious Disease |
10/18/2021 | Updated Data | The Low or Moderate Income dataset, which is calculated by PolicyMap based on ACS data, is now updated to 2015-2019. These layers show an area’s median income (either household or family) as a percentage of the region’s median income. This dataset is available at the block group and tract levels. | Incomes & Spending |
10/15/2021 | New Data | PolicyMap has just published new indicators on aggregated number of medical offices, pharmacies, and shelters at the county, metro area, and state level. These indicators were created using data from the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, and will be updated annually.> | Health > Access to Medical Care Housing > Homelessness |
10/14/2021 | Updated Data | Valassis vacancy data is also updated to the latest time period of 2021 Q2. | Housing > Vacancy Economy > Business Vacancy |
10/14/2021 | Updated Data | 2020 Census Decennial data is updated and includes variables such as total population, race (including both all and non-Hispanic), group quarters, and total housing units. This data release is only a portion of the full decennial data release expected from the Census in 2022. | Demographics Housing |
10/12/2021 | Updated Data | The BLS Local Area Unemployment (LAU) data has been updated as of August 2021. The layer shows the preliminary unemployment/employment rate and number for August 2021 and the finalized July 2021 data. | Economy > Employment and Unemployment > Unemployment Monthly |
10/10/2021 | Updated Data | The CDC Drug Overdose data has been updated as of October 2021. The data shows rates, changes in rate (1yr, 5yr), and the number of drug overdose deaths in a given geography. | Health > Vital Statistics > Mortality |
10/7/2021 | Updated Data | The County Business Patterns data from the Census Bureau is now updated through 2019. These layers show employment by industry and is updated annually. This dataset is available at the zip code, county, metro area, and state levels. | Economy > Jobs and Industries > Jobs by Industry (Zip Code) |
9/23/2021 | New Data | PolicyMap has just published new indicators on aggregated number of medical offices, pharmacies, and shelters at the county, metro area, and state level. These indicators were created using data from the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, and will be updated annually. | Health > Access to Medical Care Health > Access to Medical Care > Facilities Housing > Homelessness |
9/22/2021 | Updated Data | The USDA SNAP Retailers point data has been updated as of September 2021. The dataset shows basic information about the individual retailer, like address and county. | Quality of Life > Food and Grocery Retail Access |
9/7/2021 | Updated Data | The BLS Local Area Unemployment (LAU) data has been updated as of July 2021. The layer shows the preliminary unemployment/employment rate and number for July 2021 and the finalized June 2021 data. This data is updated monthly and available to all users. | Economy > Employment and Unemployment > Unemployment Monthly |
8/30/2021 | Updated Data | COVID-19 Cases and Deaths from the New York Times has been updated to 8/29/2021. We added a few new indicators to the dataset that align with what is on the NYT site. Users can now look at indicators from the last 14 days, such as the percent change in the 7-day rolling average, the number of cases and deaths, and the percent change in cases and deaths. | Health |
8/27/2021 | Updated Data | The HUD Income Limits dataset is now updated through 2021. These layers show median family income, and income thresholds for 30%, 50%, 60%, 80%, and 120% of the local Area Median Income. HUD’s Income Limits data is used to determine eligibility for affordable housing, but is also used more widely by housing planners and developers. This dataset is available at the county subdivision level. | Incomes and Spending > Incomes > Area Median Income |
8/26/2021 | Updated Data | Data on school-age children in poverty from the Census Bureau’s Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates program is now updated to 2019. These layers show number and percentage of children age 5 to 17 who are living in poverty. This dataset is available at the school district level. | Education |
8/26/2021 | Updated Data | The Census Public Elementary-Secondary Education Finance data (Census_PESEFD) is now updated through the 2018-2019 school year, as of 2019. This is a dataset that is on Lincoln Land (Place DB) until September 30, and also appears on our main site. | Education |
8/26/2021 | Updated Data | The Low-income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) data from HUD is updated to 2019. The point dataset provides information on each housing project like address, allocation year, construction type, number of low-income units, etc. Additionally, users can filter by total units, percent of low-income units, and more. | Housing > Housing Locations > LIHTC |
8/26/2021 | Updated Data | The USDA Food Access dataset is now updated through 2019. These layers show areas with low access to supermarkets. | Health |
8/18/2021 | Updated Data | The NCES public school location dataset is now updated through the 2019-2020 school year. Schools can be filtered by student-teacher ratio, demographics of the student population, and more. | Education > Education Locations |
8/24/2021 | New Data | We have just published data on K-12 learning mode from Burbio. These layers show estimated percentages of students in each county offered in-person only, virtual only, hybrid, or undecided learning modes. The dataset will be updated weekly as conditions may change. | Education |
8/18/2021 | Updated Data | The NCES public school location dataset is now updated through the 2019-2020 school year. Schools can be filtered by student-teacher ratio, demographics of the student population, and more. | Education > Education Locations |
8/9/2021 | Updated Data | PolicyMap now has data on the locations of 7a and 504 loans from SBA. The data shows the location of small businesses that received loans, and it can be filtered by industry, loan amount, approval year, loan status, jobs supported, and others. Like the PPP loans, this dataset highlights our new point clustering feature, which displays areas with large concentrations of loans. | Lending > Small Business Loan Locations |
8/6/2021 | Updated Data | The Building Permit data from the Census is now updated through 2020 and through May 2021. These layers show number of permitted buildings and number of units in permitted buildings by building size. | Housing > Residential Buildings and Quality > New Building Permits |
8/5/2021 | Updated Data | The BLS Local Area Unemployment (LAU) data has been updated as of June 2021. The layer shows the preliminary unemployment/employment rate and number for June 2021 and the finalized May 2021 data. | Economy > Employment and Unemployment > Unemployment Monthly |
8/2/2021 | Updated Data | The HRSA Hospitals and Nursing Facilities (point) data have been updated as of August 2021. The point data shows basic information for hospitals and nursing facilities like name, location, number of beds, and total physicians. | Health > Health Facility Locations (Hospitals, and Nursing Facilities) |
8/1/2021 | New Data | Data on locations of PPP loans greater than $150,000 from the SBA is now available to all users on PolicyMap. The data shows where round 1 and round 2 loans were made to businesses, and can be filtered by industry, woman-owned businesses, minority-owned businesses, number of jobs reported, and more. This dataset also showcases our new point clustering feature, which emphasizes areas with larger concentrations of Loans. | Lending > Small Business Loans |
7/21/2021 | Updated Data | The data on COVID-19 vaccinations from the CDC is updated to July 19th. There’s now data on the county and state-level for fully vaccinated by age groups. Vaccinations by the brand are still only available at the state level. | Health (COVID-19) > COVID-19 Vaccinations > Fully Vaccinated |
7/8/2021 | Updated Data | The Historic Tax Credit Projects from the National Park Service is updated to 2020. | Federal Guidelines |
7/2/2021 | Updated Data | The BLS Local Area Unemployment data has been updated as of April 2021. The data shows the unemployment rates, employment rates, and total people in the labor force for various geographies | Economy > Employment and Unemployment |
6/28/2021 | Updated Data | The NCUA Credit Union Branches (points) have been updated as of 2019. The points show where federal credit unions are located in the US and provide information about the individual sites (name, address, financial/lending info, etc.) and details about the specific credit union (number of employees, number of members, and services). | Lending > Banking Locations > Credit Union Branches |
6/7/2021 | Updated Data | The BLS Local Area Unemployment data has been updated as of April 2021. The data shows the unemployment rates, employment rates, and total people in the labor force for various geographies. This data is updated monthly and available to all users. | Economy > Employment and Unemployment |
6/3/2021 | New Data | PolicyMap has just added data on single family home sales from Moody's Analytics. This data is available to Premium subscribers. | Housing |
5/26/2021 | Updated Data | PolicyMap has added indicators for Severely Crowded Homeowners and Severely Crowded Renters from the American Community Survey. Severe crowding is defined as housing units with more than 1.5 occupants per room. | Housing |
5/25/2021 | Updated Data | The Housing Price Index, which shows changes in home sales prices, from the Federal Housing Finance Agency is now available to all users | Housing |
5/21/2021 | New Data | Check out the new "Property Tax" section under the Housing menu. This section contains data from the Census on median real estate tax, and data from the IRS on federal tax deductions taken for real estate taxes. | Housing |
5/25/2021 | Updated Data | The data on COVID-19 vaccinations from the CDC is updated to May 19th. The new layers break down fully vaccinated by age group (65+, 18+, and 12+) | COVID-19 > COVID-19 Vaccinations > Fully Vaccinated |
5/18/2021 | Updated Data | The data on Opioid prescription rates from the CDC is updated through 2019. These layers show the rate of opioid prescriptions per 100 people, one-year change, and change since the peak in 2012. | Risk Factors > Opioid Use > Prescription Rates |
5/18/2021 | Updated Data | The data on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or Food Stamps) recipients from the Census Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program is now updated through 2018. These layers show the number of people and the percentage of the population receiving SNAP benefits. | Health > Food Access > WIC and SNAP > SNAP Recipients > All |
5/13/2021 | Updated Data | The USDOT Deteriorating Bridges (layer and point) data is updated through 2020. The point data shows the locations of bridges in poor condition, as well as descriptive information like what road the bridge ‘carries,’ bridge length, average daily traffic, year built, and many more . The layer data shows a percentage of all bridges in poor condition at the state, metro area, county, and county subdivision levels. | Economy > Infrastructure > Transportation |
5/7/2021 | Updated Data | The CDC Vaccination data is updated up May 6th. The layer shows the percentage of the fully vaccinated population, the total number of vaccines delivered and administered, and those who received one or two doses now for each vaccine brand (Moderna, J&J, and Pfizer). | Health & COVID-19 tool |
5/7/2021 | Updated Data | The US Elections Project data is updated to 2020. The layer shows the turnout rate among the voting-eligible population in the 2020 presidential general election and the change in turnout rate from the previous election. This dataset is updated after each general and midterm election. | Demographics > Elections > Voter Turnout > Voting Eligible Population |
5/5/2021 | Updated Data | CDC Opioid poisoning data was updated to include 2019 data. This dataset includes overdose deaths from various opioid types in addition to unspecified narcotics and unspecified drugs. For a refresher on how opioid overdoses sometimes get classified under unspecified drugs, please refer to our former blogpost on the subject. | Health > Risk Factors > Opioid Use |
5/5/2021 | Updated Data | IRS Migration data was updated to 2017 data, which reflects the difference in migration from 2016 to 2017. This data includes breakdowns by population and households for in-migration, out-migration, and net-migration. | Demographics > Migration > Annual Migration |
5/4/2021 | Updated Data | The FFIEC data on small business and farm lending reported under the CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) is now updated through 2019. These layers show lending activity to small businesses and farms broken down by size of loan, size of business, and leading lenders. | Lending |
5/3/2021 | Updated Data | The HUD Fair Market Rent (FMR) and Small Area Fair Market Rent (SAFMR) data have been updated as of April 2021. The data shows the fair market price for rental units in county subdivisions (FMR) and zip codes (SAFMR), ranging from efficiency to four-bedroom units. | Housing menu > Rents and Rental Units > Fair Market Rents |
4/29/2021 | Updated Data | The HUD Multifamily Housing dataset is now updated through 2020. This point dataset shows locations of properties included in HUD’s multifamily assistance and Section 8 database, and connects that information with inspection scores and demographic information on the residents from other HUD data sources. | Housing |
4/29/2021 | Updated Data | The FBI Crime data is updated to 2019. The dataset shows the number and rate of violent and property crimes by county and city. There are individual groups for violent crimes like aggravated assault, murder, rape, and robbery. As for property crimes, the groups are burglary and motor vehicle theft. | Quality of Life |
4/28/2021 | Updated Data | The HUD Picture of Subsidized Housing dataset is now updated through 2020. These layers show information on people and households living in federally subsidized housing, including by race and ethnicity, household type, and income. This dataset is available at a number of census geographies from the Census Tract level to the national level. | Housing |
4/28/2021 | Updated Data | The HUD Public Housing locations dataset is now updated through 2020. This point dataset shows locations of public housing developments, along with information on the residents such as percent disabled residents, senior-headed households, and income levels. | Housing |
4/22/2021 | New Data | Looking for transit data? PolicyMap now has transportation lines and stops in our base maps. | Base Map Settings |
4/20/2021 | Updated Data | Data on unbanked households from the FDIC is now updated through 2015-2019. | Lending |
4/20/2021 | Updated Data | PolicyMap's Lead Risk Index is now updated through 2015-2019. | Health |
4/15/2021 | Updated Data | The BLS Local Area Unemployment (LAU) data has been updated as of February 2021. The layer shows the preliminary unemployment/employment rate and number for February 2021 and the finalized January 2021 data. This data is updated monthly and available to all users. | Economy > Employment and Unemployment > Unemployment Monthly |
4/13/2021 | Updated Data | The CDC COVID-19 Testing data is published and updated as of April 2021. This dataset replaces the COVID Tracking Project which was discontinued in March 2021 but still available on PolicyMap (COVID-19 Testing (Historical, March 2020 to March 2021)). Unlike COVID Tracking Project, each upload is a snapshot of the day published by the CDC. Therefore, it cannot be looked at over time like the previous one. The CDC provides indicators by state for total percent positive, percent positive over 30-days, percent positive over 7-days, rate of tests, number of tests, number of tests past 7-days and 30 days, rate of tests from the past 7-days and 30 days | Health > COVID-19 > COVID-19 Cases, Deaths, and Testing > COVID-19 Testing (Current) |
4/5/2021 | Updated Data | The Head Start Center location dataset is now updated. This point layer contains information on Head Start Centers and grantees, and also has filters available for Early Head Start centers, Migrant and Seasonal centers, and American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start centers. | Education |
4/2/2021 | Updated Data | The U.S Election Atlas data (layer) is updated with the 2020 election results. The data shows the percentage of votes and margin of victory for a Republican, Democrat, and third-party for the Presidency, Senate, and House of Representatives. Users can now view elections where two candidates of the same party ran against each other (i.e., California) and elections where only one major party ran against a third-party candidate rather than the two major parties against each other. | Demographics > Elections |
3/31/2021 | Updated Data | The CDC Life Expectancy data layers have been updated to include data on Wisconsin and Maine, which were previously not included in the CDC’s study. Life expectancy can be used as an overall indicator of neighborhood health. These layers include not only life expectancy in years, but also the average probability that a person in a given age range will die before reaching the next age group. | Health |
3/12/2021 | New Data | The CDC COVID-19 vaccination data is on production and updated to March 10th. These layers show the number, rate, and percentage of vaccines distributed, administrated, the number of doses administered (at least 1 or more), and those fully vaccinated. These indicators are only available at the state geography. | Health > COVID-19 |
3/12/2021 | Updated Data | The Building Permits data from the Census is now updated through 2019 for the annual dataset, and through January 2021 for the monthly. These layers show number of housing units, buildings, and value of permitted construction for counties, metro areas, and states. | Housing > Residential Buildings and Quality |
3/12/2021 | Updated Data | PolicyMap’s Medical Spending Estimates are now updated to 2018. These layers show total and out of pocket spending on medical expenses such as prescription medications, vision, and more. These indicators are available at most census geographies at the census tract level and higher. | Incomes and Spending |
3/12/2021 | Updated Data | PolicyMap’s Consumer Spending Habits data is now updated to 2019. These layers show estimated household spending on major expenses such as housing and food. | Incomes and Spending |
2/26/2021 | Updated Data | Our Home Mortgage data based on HMDA records from FFIEC is now updated through 2019. These layers include a wealth of Home Mortgage-related data ranging from mortgage denials by race and ethnicity to loan to income ratios. | Lending |
2/22/2021 | New Data | We have just published the new Multiple Tax Credit Project Locations dataset that we created for the National Trust Community Investment Corporation to aid in their work to promote tax credit programs for building affordable housing. This new dataset combines Historic Tax Credit project locations with Low Income Housing Tax Credit project locations, and identifies projects that most likely took advantage of both programs. Project locations can be filtered based on tax credit program, building or project type, year, and more. | Federal Guidelines > Federal Housing and Subsidy Locations |
2/19/2021 | Updated Data | The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dataset for its definition of Rural or Underserved Counties is now updated to 2020. This layer shows which counties are considered Rural or Underserved by the CFPB, which relates to regulation of the Truth in Lending Act. | Federal Guidelines > Additional Federal Guidelines |
2/18/2021 | Updated Data | The IRS Statistics of Income dataset is now updated through 2018. These layers show information from tax forms such as sources of income, deductions taken, and taxes paid. This year the IRS has published data on the Standard Deduction for the first time. | Incomes and Spending |
2/12/2021 | Updated Data | The HRSA Medically Underserved Areas dataset is now updated through 2020. This dataset shows census tracts identified by HRSA as having few primary care providers, high infant mortality, high poverty, or high elderly population. | Health |
