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Date | Type | Details | Category |
12/19/2024 | Updated Data | STI data from the CDC has been updated to 2023. This includes data on the cases and rates of Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and Chlamydia. | Health > Health Conditions > Infectious Diseases |
12/19/2024 | Updated Data | The Black Knight home sales quarterly data has been updated for 2024, Quarter 3. | Housing > Home Sales |
12/12/2024 | Updated Data | The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Housing Price Index has been updated to 2023. | Housing > Home Sales >Change in Housing Prices |
12/05/2024 | Updated Data | The BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAU) data has been updated for the months of July - September 2024 along with the preliminary data for October. | Economy > Employment and Unemployment |
12/05/2024 | Updated Data | 504 Loan location data from the Small Business Administration (SBA) has been updated to 2024. | Lending > Small Business Loan Locations |
12/02/2024 | Updated Data | The Small Business Administration (SBA) HUBZones data has been updated to 2023. SBA HUBZone is one of the NMTC Program higher distress indicators. HUBZone status is now available at the county-level. | Federal Guidelines > NMTC Eligibility > Other Higher Distress Indicators > SBA HUBZones |
12/02/2024 | Updated Data | SNAP Retailer location data from the USDA has been updated to 2023 data. Data is also now filterable by the store type and incentive programs. | Health > Food Access > WIC and SNAP |
11/19/2024 | Updated Data | The Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) point dataset has been updated from 2017-2018 to the latest data year available 2020-2021. This dataset is based on school district responses to a survey conducted by the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Education. It contains wide-ranging data on equity among public schools. CRDC also contains data for students with Limited English Proficiency, which was previously available through NCES (Students who were English Language Learners indicators) but now retired. | Education > Education Locations > Public Schools |
11/15/2024 | NEW DATA | The NEW CDC Heat and Health Index (HHI) has been added to PolicyMap. The Heat and Health Index (HHI) helps identify communities where people are most likely to experience harmful effects from heat. The HHI consists of 25 data indicators of heat and health vulnerability to help communities prepare for warming temperatures in a changing climate. These indicators are grouped into 4 modules.
Data in the HHI come from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS), the United States Census Bureau, the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium (MRLC), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The HHI scores ZCTAs using a percentile ranking from 0-100. A higher percentile rank means that the ZCTA is more vulnerable to the impacts of heat. The HHI uses ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) to aggregate data and show index ranks across the United States. | Quality of Life menu > Environment and Disaster Risk |
11/12/2024 | NEW DATA | Urinary Bladder Cancer has been added to the list of cancers we provide from the CDC Cancer Incidence dataset. Urinary Bladder Cancer incidence rates and counts are available for all pre-existing time periods and by race/ethnicity. Information on data suppression and availability for specific geographies can be found in the Data Dictionary. | Health > Health Conditions > Cancer |
11/11/2024 | Updated Data | The CDC Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) has been updated through 2022. The 2016 and 2018 historic data was added as well. Trends are turned off based on recommendation of the source. The index was updated in 2020, so be sure to check the description icon for details on what is included in each year's index. The custom bubbles have also been expanded to all the index categories. Social vulnerability refers to communities at higher risk for health impacts and disruptions from natural or human-made disasters, extreme weather, and climate change. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) within the CDC created the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) through its Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program (GRASP) to rank U.S. census tracts based on social factors that influence a community's ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from such events. The SVI helps identify areas most in need of support and resources during crises. | Quality of Life > Environment and Disaster Risk > Social Vulnerability |
11/05/2024 | Updated Data | The latest 2022 CMS Chronic Conditions data update is now live on production! This update includes a complete refresh of 2012-2020 historical data, since CMS re-released this data. | Health > Health Conditions > Chronic Conditions > Medicare Population |
11/04/2024 | Updated Data | Unbanked household data from the FDIC has been updated to the 2017-2021 time period. As the FDIC uses estimates to fill in the gaps for household data, margins of error at the 90% confidence level are included with each associated estimate. This means that there is a 90% likelihood that if every household in the given geography were interviewed, the count or percent would be within the margin of error above or below the estimate derived from the survey sample. For example, 3.9% of households in Colorado were unbanked, with a margin of error of 1.5%. This may be expressed as 3.9% ± 1.5%, which means that there is a 90% likelihood that the true percentage of unbanked households in Colorado was between 2.4% and 5.4% (expressing the margin of error in this way is known as a “confidence interval”). PolicyMap has also published a data flag to help users interpret these margins of error. The data flags are based on “coefficients of variation,” which are the ratios between the estimate and the margin of error. Estimates flagged as “Use with Caution” have coefficients of variation between 15% and 30%. Estimates flagged as “Reliable” have coefficients of variation of 15% or less. PolicyMap suppressed estimates with coefficients of variation greater than 30%; these are marked as “insufficient data” on the map. This explanation is included in the Data Dictionary to assist users with understanding these indicators. | Lending > Unbanked Households |
11/01/2024 | NEW DATA | Surgo Ventures Maternal Vulnerability Index (MVI) is available. The MVI identifies where and why mothers in the United States are vulnerable to poor health outcomes. The index ranks geographies on overall vulnerability to poor pregnancy outcomes and vulnerability across six themes: reproductive health, physical health, mental health and substance abuse, general healthcare, socioeconomic determinants, and physical environment. All 6 themes are available on PolicyMap. All indicators have been normalized to be 0-100 where 0 = the least vulnerable and 100 = the most vulnerable. | Health > Risk Factors > Maternal Vulnerability |
10/29/2024 | Updated Data | FEMA Disaster Declaration data has been updated to October 2024. This update includes Hurricanes Milton and Helene. | Quality of Life > Environment and Disaster Risk |
10/25/2024 | Updated Data | The Brownfields data from the EPA has been updated to 2023. This dataset shows locations of Brownfields and information about their assessment, redevelopment and remediation where available. | Quality of Life > Quality of Life Locations |
10/25/2024 | Updated Data | The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rural or underserved counties have been updated from 2012-2024. | Federal Guidelines > Additional Federal Guidelines > Economic Development Designations > CFPB Rural or Underserved Counties |
10/24/2025 | Updated Data | HUD Community Planning and Development (CPD) Appropriations Budget & Allocations data has been updated to 2022-2023. Due to limitations in the data source, there are a few historic years missing since the last update in 2018. | Federal Guidelines > Housing and Urban Development > Federal Block Grant Allocations |
10/22/2024 | Updated Data | FBI Violent/Property Crime dataset has been updated on PolicyMap for 2023. | Quality of Life > Criminal Justice |
10/22/2024 | Updated Data | U.S. Election Data has been updated to include the 2022 midterm elections. This update only includes new Senate and House of Representatives data; however, changes were also made to the formatting of the Margin of Victory indicator for all three election types. Senate data has also been expanded to include data for both midterm and general election years. | Demographics > Elections |
10/21/2024 | Updated Data | CDC PLACES data has been updated through 2022. Release Notes - The following indicators are not available for 2022 and are still using 2021 BRFSS data (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and cholesterol screening). The data will look different as the CDC re-mapped these indicators to the updated boundaries. - Chronic kidney disease, Preventative Service for Older Women and Preventative Service for Older Men were discontinued, thus will not be updated past 2021. - New category: Health-Related Social Needs, which includes:
*New indicators are only for 39 states and DC **Excludes: Arkansas, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Virginia, and Territories | Health > Access to Medical Care Health > Health Conditions Health > Risk Factors |
10/21/2024 | Updated Data | The FBI Hate Crimes dataset has been updated to 2023. Please note that in this most recent update, 2020-2022 rates may differ slightly from the previous values. This is due to the rates being calculated from Census Population Estimates, which we updated recently. All counts have remained the same. | Quality Life > Criminal Justice > Hate Crimes |
10/03/2024 | Updated Data | USDA Rural Development's Multifamily Property and Guaranteed Loan point data has been updated to 2024. | Housing > USDA Rural Housing |
10/01/2024 | Updated Data | The National Center of Education Statistics (NCES) point datasets for Private Schools has been updated for the 2021-2022 School Year. There are updates to the pop-up bubble and filters. | Education > Education Locations> Private Schools |
09/30/2024 | Updated Data | The free and reduced-price lunch program (FRPL) eligibility data has been updated through the 2020-21 School Year. For schools that do not report free and reduced-price lunch program (FRPL) eligibility data, direct certification counts are used exclusively. Direct certification applies to children from households participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), or (in some states) Medicaid, as well as children who are migrant, experiencing homelessness, in foster care, or enrolled in Head Start. These students are categorically eligible to receive free meals at school. This addition helps to create a more inclusive understanding of this meal programs as well as the difference in how states run this federal nutrition program. Data Note: Illinois and Virginia opted not to collect this data under the pandemic meal provisions that gave free meals universally, thus leading to gaps in the usual reporting for these states in the 2020-21 period. | Education > School District Statistics > Free and Reduced-Price Lunch Eligibility |
09/30/2024 | Updated Data | The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Medicare annual data has been updated to 2022. This latest update adds 2022 data and includes a data refresh of 2014-2021 data years. There are slight variations in the re-released historic data, due to CMS restructuring their classification system. For more details, please refer to the Data Dictionary. | Health > Cost and Insurance > Medicare |
09/23/2024 | Updated Data | PolicyMap and Quantitative Innovations' Consumer Spending Habits and Medical Spending Estimates data have been updated to 2022. | Incomes & Spending > Consumer Spending Habits Incomes & Spending > Medical Spending Estimates |
09/20/2024 | Updated Data | Data from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) on Medically Underserved Areas (MUA) is now updated on PolicyMap for 2024. This dataset includes information about medically underserved areas & populations, as well as an index of medical underservice score provided by HRSA. | Health > Access to Medical Care > Medically Underserved Areas Curated Collections > Social Determinants of Health > Health/Healthcare Landscape > Access to Healthcare > Underserved Areas > Medically Underserved Areas |
09/17/2024 | NEW DATA | The MapMealGap dataset from Feeding America is updated to 2022 on PolicyMap. A new indicator has been added called Food Insecure Persons Not Eligible for SNAP. This indicator is available from 2021 and onward. | Incomes & Spending > Food and Nutrition > Food Insecurity |
09/10/2024 | Updated Data | County Business Patterns data from the Census Bureau has been updated to 2022. | Economy > Jobs and Industries > Jobs by Industry (Zip Code) > Jobs by Subsector Health > Access to Medical Care > Facilities Housing > Homelessness > Shelters and Other Relief Services |
09/10/2024 | Updated Data | The New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Community Development Entities locations have been updated through 2022. | Lending > CDFI Fund Locations > New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Community Development Entities Federal Guidelines > NMTC Investments > Community Development Entities |
09/06/2024 | Updated Data | Head Start Center location data from the Office of the Administration for Children and Families Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center has been updated to 2024. | Education > Education Locations |
09/06/2024 | Updated Data | CDC Cancer Incidence data has been updated for the latest 2016-2020 and 2017-2021 time periods. The data is available by cancer type and race/ethnicity. | Health > Health Conditions > Cancer |
09/04/2024 | Updated Data | The CDFI Fund's New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Eligibility has been updated to include "Deep Distress" census tracts and "Deep Distress" tract criteria. “Deep Distress” census tracts are those that meet basic NMTC eligibility and have either AMI <= 40% state/metro area AMI, poverty rate >= 40%, or unemployment >= 2.5x national rate. | Federal Guidelines > CDFI Fund New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Eligibility |
08/30/2024 | Updated Data | BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAU) data has been updated for the months of March – June 2024 along with the preliminary data for July. | Economy > Employment and Unemployment |
08/30/2024 | Updated Data | The New Market Tax Credit (NMTC) investments have been updated for the 2013-2017 and the 2018-2022 time periods. We expanded the number of indicators to cover a broader range of investment purposes. | Lending > CRA, CDFI, NMTC Programs> New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Investments Federal Guidelines > NMTC Investments |
08/27/2024 | Updated Data | CDC's Seasonal Flu Activity data has been updated to the 2023-2024 flu season. This update adds the latest data years from 2019-2024 and is a complete data refresh of our historical data. | Health > Health Conditions > Infectious Disease |
08/26/2024 | Updated Data | The CRA Eligibility Criteria dataset has been updated for 2024. Please see our Data Dictionary to learn more about the Community Reinvestment Act data. Earlier this year, we updated half of this dataset to include the 2024 Median Family Income and Area Median Income calculations. Now, with the FFIEC's recent release of Distressed and Underserved census tracts, we have brought the second half of this dataset up to date for the rest of 2024 | Federal Guidelines > Additional Federal Guidelines > CRA Eligibility > Eligible Tracts Lending > CRA, CDFI, NMTC Programs > CRA Eligibility > Eligible Tracts |
08/23/2024 | Updated Data | The National Center of Education Statistics (NCES) point datasets for 4-year Colleges and Universities and Community Colleges has been updated for the 2021-2022 School Year. | Education > Education Locations > Higher Education |
08/23/2024 | Updated Data | Valassis has been updated through 2024 Q2. | Housing > Vacancy > Residential and Business (Valassis Lists) Economy > Business Vacancy |
08/22/2024 | Updated Data | CDBG program activity data has been updated to 2023. This is a point dataset and displays the location and information of CDBG activities since 1996. | Federal Guidelines > Federal Housing and Subsidy Locations > Housing and Urban Development |
08/16/2024 | Updated Data | The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program eligibility and low/mod data from HUD has been updated to 2023. | Federal Guidelines > Housing and Urban Development > Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Eligibility |
08/16/2024 | Updated Data | Census Public School Finance data has been updated on PolicyMap for 2022. | Education > School District Statistics |
08/10/2024 | NEW DATA | FEMA’s National Risk Index (NRI) is now available on PolicyMap. The NRI is a dataset and online tool that helps illustrate the US communities most at risk for 18 natural hazards, displayed individually by hazard and as a composite risk score. Data is displayed at the county and census tract level and is available in all 50 states. To calculate risk, the NRI uses three inputs; expected annual loss (EAL), social vulnerability, and community resilience. EAL measures the expected loss of building value, population, and agriculture value each year due to natural hazards. Social Vulnerability is a consequence enhancing component and analyzes demographic characteristics to measure the susceptibility of social groups to the adverse impacts of natural hazards. Community Resilience is a consequence reduction component and uses demographic characteristics to measure a community’s ability to prepare for, adapt to, withstand, and recover from the effects of natural hazards. This function of these inputs can be visualized as Risk = EAL * (Social Vulnerability / Community Resilience).
The NRI provides three outputs for EAL and risk: values, scores, and ratings:
Unlike most datasets, the NRI can null or null-like values for three reasons, which are labeled in the rating and score:
| Quality of Life > Environment and Disaster Risk |
08/06/2024 | Updated Data | The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (CCD) dataset has been updated to the 2022-23 School Year. The points show locations of the public schools and the information bubble when clicking on a school will provide the demographic and enrollment information. Changes:
| Education > Education Locations > Public Schools > Public Schools: Enrollment and Demographics (NCES) |
07/31/2024 | Updated Data | Distressed Area data from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) has been updated to 2025. | Federal Guidelines > CDFI Fund New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) Eligibility > Other Higher Distress Indicators > Appalachian Regional Commission Distressed Areas |
07/29/2024 | Updated Data | The Delta Regional Authority (DRA) Distressed Counties data has been updated to 2024. | Federal Guidelines > CDFI Fund New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) Eligibility > Other Higher Distress Indicators |
0725/2024 | Updated Data | The LIHTC point dataset from HUD has been updated to 2022. The points show the location of properties funded through LIHTC from 1987 to 2022. | Housing > Subsidized Housing > Subsidized Housing Points |
07/19/2024 | Updated Data | EPA’s Environmental Justice Mapping and Screening Tool (EJScreen) has been updated to 2024 on PolicyMap. . EJScreen was developed by the EPA to help identify areas with potential environmental justice concerns. The EJ and Supplemental Indexes display areas with a high combination of environmental burden and vulnerable populations or socioeconomic vulnerability. EJScreen indicators are shown as percentiles ranked from 0 to 100. These percentile ranks indicate the proportion of geographies with equal or lower environmental burden compared to the geography of interest. For example, if you are looking at the Lead Paint EJ Index (National Percentiles) on the tract-level, a Lead Paint EJ Index national percentile of 80 means that 80% of tracts in the nation have less potential exposure to lead paint than the tract of interest, and that 20% of tracts in the nation have greater potential exposure to lead paint. For information, please refer to the updated Data Dictionary. | Quality of Life > Environment and Disaster Risk > Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool |
07/18/2024 | Updated Data | The Census LEHD – Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data has been updated to 2021. These variables show employment data by worker residence and employer location. Data is available for employee demographics, including age, ethnicity/race, sex, education, and earnings. Data is also available for worker industry and firm age and size. Information about federal employees has been available since 2010. All data was recalculated at the 2020 census geographies. | Economy > Small Business and Startups Economy > Workforce Characteristic |
07/18/2024 | Updated Data | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) & Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Environmental Justice Index is now available on PolicyMap. CDC & ATSDR Environmental Justice Index (EJI) uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to determine the cumulative impacts of environmental injustice for over 71,000 U.S. census tracts. Overall EJI scores are percentile ranked from 0 to 100, indicating the proportion of tracts with equal or lower environmental burden compared to the tract of interest. For example, a EJI ranking of 85 signifies that 85% of tracts in the nation likely experience less severe cumulative impacts from environmental burden than the tract of interest, and that 15% of tracts in the nation likely experience more severe cumulative impacts from environmental burden. Note EJI 2022 does not include measures for Alaska, Hawaii, or U.S. territories and dependencies. | Quality of Life > Environment and Disaster Risk |
07/12/2024 | Updated Data | Valassis has been updated through Quarter 1, 2024. This is a refresh of all the data and updated to 2024 zip code boundaries. All the historic years are re-mapped to 2024 zip code boundaries to assist users with comparisons over time. The update also includes the 2022 vintages of block group, census tract, county boundaries, and the new 2023 Metro Areas. | Housing > Vacancy > Residential and Business (Valassis Lists) Economy > Business Vacancy |
07/11/2024 | Updated Data | BLS QCEW data has been updated to 2023. | Economy > Jobs and Industries > Jobs and Wages by Industry (County) |
07/11/2024 | Updated Data | The HUD Qualified Census Tracts (QCTs) and Difficult Development Areas (DDAs) dataset is now updated to 2024. Please note that Difficult Development Areas (DDAs) now display the unique HUD DDA geographies. Given this change and since designations change yearly, we no longer show the historic DDA data. The category labels have also changed to be more consistent with HUD’s designation labels. | Federal Guidelines > Housing and Urban Development |
07/09/2024 | Updated Data | The FBI Violent/Property Crime and Hate Crimes datasets have finally been updated! Both datasets have been updated to 2022, and Violent/Property Crime now includes new State and MSA level data. 2021 data has been excluded from the Violent/Property Crime as the FBI did not release the 2021 source data due to low participation rates in their new data collection system. More information on the changes to this dataset can be found in the data dictionary, please note that the Hate Crimes data has not been altered and is simply being updated. | Quality of Life > Criminal Justice |
07/01/2024 | NEW DATA | The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJScreen) is now available on PolicyMap! The EPA EJScreen includes environmental indicators, socioeconomic indicators, and EJ/supplemental indexes that summarize how environmental indicators and specific socioeconomic indicators interact in the same location. The dataset can be displayed using national percentiles (which use the U.S. population as the basis of comparison) and state percentiles (which are calculated based on the population in each state, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico). | Quality of Life > Environmental and Disaster Risk > Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJScreen) |
07/01/2024 | Updated Data | The HUD homelessness data has been updated to 2023. This data shows homeless estimates as captured in a single point-in-time count. Please note that the numbers collected in 2021 are artificially low given the pandemic influence. For more information on this undercounting please see the 2021 homeless assessment report. | Demographics > Homelessness |
06/24/2024 | Updated Data | The CDC Opioid Overdose data has been updated through 2022. | Health > Vital Statistics > Drug Overdose > Opioid Overdose |
06/24/2024 | Updated Data | The CDC Opioid Prescription data has been updated through 2022 (with a complete data refresh for 2019-2022). | Health > Risk Factors > Opioid Use > Prescription Rate |
06/24/2024 | Updated Data | CRA small business and small farm loans data have been updated to 2022. | Lending > Small Business Loans Lending > Small Farm Loans |
06/13/2024 | Updated Data | Data from the Energy Information Administration on locations of electric generating plants and electricity generated, point and layer data respectively, have been updated on PolicyMap to 2023. | Economy > Infrastructure > Energy |
06/12/2024 | Updated Data | Fair Market Rent and Small Area Fair Market Rent has been updated to 2024. | Housing > Rents and Rental Units > Fair Market Rents |
06/10/2024 | Updated Data | Mental Health Treatment Facilities, Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities, and Buprenorphine Physician location point datasets from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) have been updated on production to 2023. Due to newly expanded services offered across facilities, new filters have been added for Mental Health Treatment Facilities and Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities datasets. | Health > Health Facility Locations Curated Collections > Social Determinants of Health > Health/Healthcare Locations > Access to Healthcare > Health Facilities |
06/03/2024 | Updated Data | Annual and Monthly Building Permit data from the Census Bureau has been updated to 2023 and April 2024. | Housing > Residential Buildings and Quality > New Building Permits |
05/30/2024 | Updated Data | The FEMA Disaster Declaration data has been updated through May 2024. | Quality of Life > Environment and Disaster Risk Federal Guidelines > FEMA Disaster Declarations |
05/23/2024 | Updated Data | The Delta Regional Authority (DRA) Distressed Counties data has been updated to 2023. | Federal Guidelines > CDFI Fund New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) Eligibility > Other Higher Distress Indicators > Delta Regional Authority Distressed Counties |
05/21/2024 | Updated Data | The Small Business Administration 7(a) loan data has been updated through 2024 and underwent a huge overhaul. PolicyMap has added nearly a million more loans by increasing our efforts to de-duplicate, expand geocoding, and deep data cleansing. | Lending > Small Business Loan Locations |
05/21/2024 | Updated Data | The Black Knight home sales quarterly data has been updated for 2024, Quarter 1. | Housing > Home Sales |
05/20/2024 | Updated Data | The Great Schools data has been updated to 2024. This data no longer includes district level data. This update only includes school performance points and calculated distance to schools. | Education > Education Location > School Performance Education > School District Performance |
05/17/2024 | Updated Data | Distressed Area data from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) has been updated to 2024. | Federal Guidelines > CDFI Fund New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) Eligibility > Other Higher Distress Indicators > Appalachian Regional Commission Distressed Areas |
05/16/2024 | New Data | An additional 30+ indicators from the Council on Environmental Quality’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) are now live on PolicyMap! The new indicators provide further information on the specific criteria that determines disadvantaged status for each of the eight categories of burden. | Federal Guidelines > Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool |
05/14/2024 | Updated Data | Census ACS Low Mod has been updated to 2018-2022. | Incomes & Spending > Low and Moderate Income (Low Mod) |
05/14/2024 | Updated Data | CMS Hospital Compare point dataset has been updated in PolicyMap to 2023. | Health > Health Facility Locations > Hospitals > Hospitals: Quality of Care (Medicare Certified Hospitals) |
05/10/2024 | Updated Data | Indicators for CRA Eligibility and Tract Median Family Income (MFI) as a % of Metro Area Median Income which come from FFIEC and are used for the CRA program have been updated in PolicyMap to 2024. This update accounts for the 2022 Connecticut County boundary changes and 2023 Metro Area and Metro Division boundary changes which affect the Tract MFI % calculation. These indicators are now displayed at 2022 Census Tract boundaries. | Federal Guidelines > Additional Federal Guidelines > CRA Eligibility |
05/10/2024 | Updated Data | The BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAU) data has been updated for the months of December 2023 – February 2024 along with the preliminary March data. The annual data has been updated for 2023 (which includes a refresh of all years with BLS final revision on April 19, 2024). | Economy > Employment and Unemployment |
05/10/2024 | Updated Data | CMS Chronic Conditions data update is now live on production. This update adds new data for 2019-2021 and includes two additional indicators (i.e., Alcohol Use Disorder and Drug Use Disorder) that were previously not being displayed. | Health > Health Conditions > Chronic Conditions > Medicare Population |
05/02/2024 | Updated Data | HUD’s Multifamily and Public Housing data has been updated to 2023. | Housing > Subsidized Housing > Subsidized Housing Points |
05/02/2024 | Updated Data | The updated Theil Index is now on PolicyMap. The Theil Index measures racial segregation by calculating how evenly people of all races are concentrated across an area based on the racial composition of sub-areas. The index measures the average difference between each sub-area's racial distribution and the racial distribution of the area as a whole. Index values range from 0 to 1, where higher values of have less uniform racial and ethnic distributions, or greater segregation; lower values of have more uniform racial and ethnic distributions, or less segregation. This indicator is changing a bit, which is worth explaining. The previous indicator used the 2010 Decennial census, but the 2020 Decennial data was released quite late, and isn't yet in PolicyMap (should be in sometime this summer). The new indicator is based on the 2018-2022 ACS, which presents a tradeoff; the indicator is based on a sample-based estimate, rather than a census, which introduces more noise. However, the ACS is both more recent, and includes multiple time periods (the last three ACS releases). We decided that having recent data and a time series was better than stale decennial data, so we are replacing the 2010 decennial indicator with the new ACS indicator everywhere. | Demographics > Race, Ethnicity, Diversity > Segregation |
05/02/2024 | Updated Data | Predominant Race/Ethnicity has been updated on PolicyMap! These indicators use ACS data on race/ethnicity to identify non-overlapping racial and ethnic categories provided by the US Census Bureau, including the ethnic category Hispanic and seven Non-Hispanic racial categories: White, African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, some other race, and two or more races. | Demographics > Race, Ethnicity, Diversity |
05/01/2024 | Updated Data | Owner and Renter Affordability has been updated on PolicyMap. | Income & Spending > Affordability > Housing Unit Affordability |
04/29/2024 | Updated Data | Retail health clinic locations from Data Axle have been updated on PolicyMap. | Health > Health Facility Locations |
04/29/2024 | Updated Data | Pharmacy locations from Data Axle have been updated on PolicyMap. | Health > Health Facility Locations |
04/25/2024 | Updated Data | HUD’s Picture of Subsidized Housing (POSH) data has been updated to 2023. This update adds new data for 2022 and 2023, and includes data from 2009-2013. | Housing > Subsidized Housing > Households in Subsidized Housing |
04/18/2024 | Updated Data | The FDIC Bank Branches dataset has been updated on PolicyMap | Lending > Banking Locations > Bank Branch Offices |
04/18/2024 | Updated Data | Low-Income Communities and Non-Urban Areas which are geographic eligibility criteria for the Electric Vehicle Refueling Tax Credit as part of the IRA have been updated following new guidance from IRS/Treasury and updated data from the Dept. of Energy. These indicators are only available in the Clean Energy collection. | Curated Collections > Clean Energy Tax Incentives > Other Tax Credit Eligibility |
04/17/2024 | Updated Data | The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) opioid-related hospital use data have been updated as of 2021. The layer data shows opioid-related hospital stays and emergency department visits for available states and settings of care as well as for specific patient characteristics. | Health > Risk Factors > Opioid Use > Hospital Use |
04/16/2024 | Updated Data | The CDFI Fund’s Certified CDFI point dataset has been updated on production as of March 15, 2024. The points show where Certified CDFI organizations are located, the type of organization, and if it is a native CDFI. | Lending > CDFI Fund Locations > Certified CDFIs |
04/15/2024 | Updated Data | The HRSA Area Health Resource File (AHRF) data is updated to 2022, although for most data the latest available period is now 2021 or even 2020. We added quite a few additional variables with this latest data release. The data now covers topics related to access to medical care, including medical professionals, hospital utilization, including emergency department utilization and hospital inpatient and outpatient days, and types of health facilities.
Please note that rates for 2020-2022 were not calculated for CT since the Census population estimates used for the denominator are calculated at the new CT regional planning district but the HRSA data uses the previous CT counties. | Health > Access to Medical Care |
04/09/2024 | Updated Data | The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) credit union branches point dataset have been updated as of 2023. The points show where federal credit unions are located in the U.S. 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 |
04/08/2024 | Updated Data | DHS Immigration data is now updated to 2022 | Demographics > Foreign Born Population, Immigration > Immigration |
03/27/2024 | Updated Data | The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Medicare annual data has been updated to 2021. CMS also re-released all their historic data (for 2007-2017) so those data years have been updated. There are also two new indicators available for all years (2007-2021):
| Health > Cost and Insurance > Medicare |
03/21/2024 | NEW DATA | DEMOGRAPHICS Demographics--> Ages 5 or Older Demographics--> Race --> American Indian and Alaska Native -->Ancestry (including new Decennial) Demographics--> Race --> Asian -->Ancestry (including new Decennial) Demographics--> Race --> Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders -->Ancestry (including new Decennial) Demographics-->Foreign Born Population, Immigration --> Foreign Born -->Africa --> Algeria & Ivory Coast & Tanzania & Togo Demographics-->Foreign Born Population, Immigration --> Foreign Born --> Americas --> St. Lucia Demographics-->Foreign Born Population, Immigration --> Foreign Born -->Asia --> Azerbaijan & Burma (Myanmar) & Georgia & United Arb Emirates Demographics-->Foreign Born Population, Immigration --> Foreign Born -->Oceania --> Marshall Islands Demographics-->Language-->Limited English, by Age Demographics-->Speakers by Language-->Language Spoken at Home-->Language Spoken at Home (Current) Demographics-->Speakers by Language-->Limited English, by Language Spoken at Home-->Limited English, by Language Spoken at Home (Current) Demographics-->Households, Families, Householders --> Householders-->Population by Occupied Housing Units Demographics-->Households, Families, Householders --> Household Size --> Average Size --> By Race and Ethnicity Demographics-->Households, Families, Householders --> Household Size --> Homeowners --> Average Size --> By Race and Ethnicity Demographics-->Households, Families, Householders --> Household Size --> Renters --> Average Size --> By Race and Ethnicity
HOUSING Housing--> Median Value-->By Race Housing-->Affordability and Cost Burdens--> Homeowners Cost Burden--> Cost Burden-->Housing Costs Greater than 30% of Income & Housing Costs Greater than 50% of Income Housing-->Affordability and Cost Burdens--> Renter Cost Burdens--> Cost Burden-->Housing Costs Greater than 30% of Income & Housing Costs Greater than 50% of Income Housing-->Affordability and Cost Burdens--> Renter Cost Burdens--> Cost Burden-->Upper Rent Quartile & Lower Rent Quartile Housing-->Vacancy-->Residential (Census) --> All Vacant -->Units by Size & Additional Housing Housing-->Residential Building and Quality -->Occupied Housing Units --> Number of Units & Number of Bedrooms
ECONOMY Economy--> Jobs and Industries --> Median Earnings by Field of Bachelor's Degree EDUCATION Education-->Educational Attainment-->Median Earnings by Field of Bachelor's Degree | Multiple Categories |
03/19/2024 | Updated Data | The IRS Statistics of Income annual Migration data is now updated to 2020. Data from pre-2011 was also updated to reflect the new boundaries. | Demographics > Migration |
03/12/2024 | Updated Data | The CDFI Fund Bank Enterprise Award (BEA) Distressed Communities data has been updated to 2023 and now uses 2016-2020 ACS data. This data is updated on a 5-year basis and is available to all users. | Federal Guidelines > Additional Federal Guidelines > HUBZones, Distressed and Underserved Communities |
03/12/2024 | Updated Data | The CDFI Fund Persistent Poverty Counties data has been updated to 2023 and now includes 2016-2020 ACS data. A persistent poverty county is defined as any county that has had 20 percent or more of its population living in poverty over the past 30 years as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau. In making the determination, the CDFI Fund used data from the 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses, and the 2016-2020 American Community Survey. This data is updated on a 5-year basis and is available to all users. | Federal Guidelines > Additional CDFI Fund Programs |
03/05/2024 | Updated Data | Black Knight home sales annual and quarterly data has been updated for all of 2023. | Housing > Home Sales |
03/04/2024 | Updated Data | The BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAU) data has been updated for the months of September-December 2023. | Economy > Employment and Unemployment |
02/28/2024 | Updated Data | Adult and infant mortality data from CDC is now updated to 2021 | Heath > Vital Statistics > Mortality |
02/28/2024 | Updated Data | The Capital Magnet Fund (CMF) data from the CDFI Fund was updated to 2024. This is the current application criteria. Note that the criteria are using 2020 census tract boundaries. For more information you can visit the source here: https://www.cdfifund.gov/programs-training/programs/cmf/apply-step | Federal Guidelines > Additional CDFI Fund Programs > Capital Magnet Fund |
02/21/2024 | Updated Data | Graduation Rate data has been updated through 2021. This dataset has graduation rates by different cohorts. | Education > School District Statistics > Graduation Rate |
01/19/2024 | Updated Data | The Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives program encourages private sector investment in the rehabilitation and re-use of historic buildings. It creates jobs and is one of the nation's most successful and cost-effective community revitalization programs. It has leveraged $116.34 billion in private investment to preserve more than 47,000 historic properties since 1976. | Federal Guidelines > Federal Housing and Subsidy Locations |
01/17/2024 | NEW Data | New indicators from the Council on Environmental Quality’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) have been added to PolicyMap. CEJST was developed to identify disadvantaged communities that face burdens across eight categories: climate change, energy, health, housing, legacy pollution, transportation, water and wastewater, and workforce development. CEJST is intended to be used for the Justice40 Initiative, which aims to deliver 40% of certain Federal investments to these disadvantaged communities. Federal investments include clean energy infrastructure, affordable and sustainable housing, and remediation of legacy pollution among others. Many of these federal investment programs are being carried out as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). | Federal Guidelines > Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool |
01/11/2024 | Updated Data | Designated American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Areas which are available in PolicyMap as both a boundary overlay and an indicator have been updated to 2022. The data comes from Census TIGER boundaries. The boundary is available to all users under the Boundaries menu and the indicator is incorporated into the Clean Energy Tax Incentive curated collection menu because these areas are relevant for certain clean energy investment tax incentives. | Map Boundaries |
