New and Updated Data (2025)
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Date | Type | Details | Category |
05/08/2025 | Updated Date | Median Age Percentile Rankings based off the recent ACS update have been added to PolicyMap. These rankings measure the median age of a geography’s population, compared to all other geographies at the same level. Percentile are ranked from 0-100, where a low rank indicates a low median age compared to all other geos. For instance, a rank of 20 would indicate that the median age of the population is lower than 80% of all other geos. However, this does not mean that the median age of the population is 20 years old. | Demographic > Age |
05/06/2025 | NEW DATA | Niche is a platform that provides rankings for schools based on public data and user reviews. PolicyMap licenses Niche ratings for Pre-K through 12th grade schools. The Overall Rating and Academic Rating are based on Niche’s proprietary algorithms and follow a grading scale from A+ to D-. Niche is replacing GreatSchools, with key differences including the incorporation of data on school demographics, administrative details, graduation rates, AP course offerings, etc. Niche also includes user-reported data on metrics such as average GPA, SAT/ACT scores, and AP exam pass rates. With the additional data from Niche, we were able to expand the point dataset filters and expand the distance to nearest high performing public school to include separate layers for pre-k, elementary, middle, and high school. | Education > Education Locations > School Performance Education > School Rating Performance |
05/02/2025 | Updated Data | HUD Multifamily and Public Housing point datasets have been updated to 2024. | Housing > Housing Locations |
05/01/2025 | Updated Data | Bank branch office data from FDIC has been updated to 2024 data. | Lending > Banking Locations |
04/28/2025 | Updated Data | Credit Union Branch locations from NCUA has been updated to 2024 data. | Lending > Banking Locations |
04/28/2025 | NEW DATA | FEMA Disaster Assistance has been published on production. This dataset is broken in three categories in the taxonomy: Individual & Household Assistance, Public Assistance, and Property Damage. This was created using data from FEMA’s Individual & Households (IHP) and Public Assistance (PA) programs. Each category includes a layer for all disasters, and disaster-specific layers. Specific information on the base later and info bubbles can be found at the bottom. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions about this data.
Individual & Household Assistance: Base layer displays the total amount of funding provided through the IHP program. Info bubble includes additional information on the number of disasters, funding provided through sub-programs of the IHP, and details on emergency needs and assistance provided to applicants. Public Assistance: Base layer displays the total amount of funding provided to grantees through the PA program. Info bubble includes the number of disasters, total number of grant projects, and details on the total cost of the projects. Property Damage: Base layer displays the total determined cost of damage caused to real property components. Info bubble includes the number of disasters, determined value of damage to specific property components, and determined level of damage to renter/owner properties. | Quality of Life > FEMA Disaster Declarations > FEMA Disaster Assistance |
04/21/2025 | NEW DATA | Ancestry Data for AIAN Populations: A new ancestry table for American Indian and Alaska Native alone populations, now based on selected tribes and villages (no longer grouped, per tribal consultation feedback).
Expanded Age and Sex Breakdowns: More detailed age data, including breakdowns by sex and a new proxy indicator for females of reproductive age (15–49).
Disability Data: Disability indicators now further disaggregated by age, sex, and veteran status.
| Demographics |
04/21/2025 | NEW DATA | Education Data: New indicators include age and sex disaggregation for educational attainment and school enrollment.
| Education |
04/21/2025 | NEW DATA | Seniors Data: New indicators on poverty status, SNAP participation, and employment status for older adults.
| Income & Spending |
04/21/2025 | NEW DATA | Medicaid and Medicare Data: Expansions on Medicaid enrollment by age groups (under 19, 19–64, and 65+) and by sex, along with Medicare enrollment by sex.
| Health |
04/21/2025 | NEW DATA | Housing Costs by Race & Ethnicity: Nine new race- and ethnicity-specific tables show housing costs as a percentage of household income (>30% and >50%) for owners (with/without mortgage) and renters.
Homeowners Insurance Costs by Mortgage Status: New table provides yearly homeowners insurance costs for both owners with and without a mortgage.
| Housing |
04/21/2025 | NEW DATA | Owner- and Renter-Occupied Housing by Tenure: Expanded indicators include both owner-occupied and renter-occupied units by tenure type.
Homeowner Monthly Costs by Mortgage Status: Details owner‑occupied units’ monthly housing costs by mortgage status.
| Housing |
03/24/2025 | Updated Data | The Institute of Museum and Library Services point dataset for public libraries has been updated to the most recent 2022 year. | Quality of Life > Quality of Life Locations > Libraries |
03/24/2025 | Updated Data | CDFI Investment data has been updated to 2022. It is available to all users and can be found under the Lending > CRA, CDFI, NMTC Programs menu. Please note that in this update, the CDFI Fund included missing investment data from FY2021 that has impacted data for 2020 and 2021. Data availability for these years hasn’t changed, but the values for the number of investments and median investment amount has changed significantly. Details on this have been included in the data directory. | Lending > CRA, CDFI, NMTC Programs |
03/17/2025 | Updated Data | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) & Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Environmental Justice Index is now updated on PolicyMap. This new release includes the EJI + Climate Burden rank, which is calculated using the new Climate Burden module along with the three existing modules-- Social Vulnerability, Environmental Burden, and Health Vulnerability. For more detailed information, please refer to the Data Dictionary. | Quality of Life > Environment and Disaster Risk > EJI > Census Tract Ranking |
03/13/2025 | Updated Data | The CDC Mortality data has been updated through 2023. This update includes disease-related deaths for adults 35 and older, as well as injury-related deaths for all ages. Please note that the county maps are very sparse, as county-level data is only available for counties with populations of 250,000 or more. Rates are not displayed in areas with fewer than 10-20 deaths, depending on the indicator. Indicator-specific details on suppression are in the description. Years and geographies with fully suppressed data do not appear in the dropdown selections. The CDC Infant Deaths data has been updated through 2022, and now includes, though very limited, the counts of infant deaths for mothers who were Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. | Health > Vital Statistics > Mortality Curated Collections > Social Determinants of Health > Life Expectancy and Mortality |
03/07/2025 | Updated Data | Monthly building permit data from the Census has been updated to December 2024. It is available to all users and can be found under the Housing > Residential Buildings and Quality menu. CBSA data has also been added for 2004-2024. | Housing > Residential Buildings and Quality |
03/06/2025 | Updated Data | FEMA Floodmap Types (aka Floodzones) have been updated. | Quality of Life > Environment and Disaster Risk > Flood Risk |
02/27/2025 | Updated Data | Bank Failure data from the FDIC has been updated to 2024. | Lending > Bank Locations |
02/24/2025 | Updated Data | The Owner Affordability and Renter Affordability data has been updated with the current ACS data. This dataset combines HUD Area Median Income (AMI) data with ACS data and is exclusive to PolicyMap. The Area Median Income represents the median income thresholds for a family of four within a geography, as published by HUD in 2023. Housing cost data includes the estimated number of homes falling under specific price thresholds, based on the Census' 2019-2023 ACS data. | Incomes & Spending > Affordability > Housing Unit Affordability Housing > Affordability and Cost Burdens > Affordability |
02/20/2025 | Updated Data | IRS Statistics of Income Migration data is now updated to 2021. This dataset displays estimates of migration flows across counties using domestic and foreign tax returns. | Demographics > Migration > Annual Migration |
02/18/2025 | Updated Data | The Racial Homeownership Gap data has been updated with the current ACS data. This data calculates the gap using percent of owner households by race subtracted from percent of Non-Hispanic White owner households. | Housing > Homeowners and Renters > Racial Housing Disparity |
02/12/2025 | Updated Data | Local Median Income as a share of Area Median Income (Low Mod) has been updated with the current ACS and HUD data. This data shows local Median Household Income (MHI) from the American Community Survey (ACS) (2019-2023) as a percentage of either the HUD-defined Area Median Income (AMI) for metro areas (2023) or the non-metro state AMI (2023) for areas outside Census-defined metro regions. The map categorizes income levels using ACS MHI data and compares it to HUD AMI benchmarks for metro and non-metro areas. | Income & Spending > Low and Moderate Income (Low Mod) |
02/11/2025 | Updated Data | The USDOT Deteriorating Bridges (layer and point) data is updated to 2024. 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 more. The layer data shows a percentage of all bridges in poor condition. | Economy > Infrastructure > Transportation |
02/10/2025 | NEW DATA | The CDFI Fund's New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Eligibility has been updated to include a new eligibility criterion: "High Migration Rural County". Census tracts in High Migration Rural Counties with a median family income at or below 85 percent of the applicable area median family income are now NMTC Eligible. A High Migration Rural County is any county which, during the 20-year period ending with the year in which the most recent census was conducted, has a net out-migration of inhabitants from the county of at least 10 percent of the population of the county at the beginning of such period. | Federal Guidelines > CDFI Fund New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Eligibility |
02/10/2025 | Updated Data | Area Median Income data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has been updated to 2024. | Income > Area Median Income |
01/30/2025 | Updated Data | Disaster declaration data from FEMA has been updated to January 2025. This includes the Los Angeles wildfires. | Quality of Life > Environment and Disaster Risk > FEMA Disaster Declarations |
01/29/2025 | Updated Data | The Diversity Index and Theil Index data is now updated to the latest ACS time frames (2019-2023, 2014-2018, 2009-2013). | Demographics > Race, Ethnicity, Diversity > Diversity & Segregation |
01/29/2025 | UPDATED DATA | The Census American Community Survey (ACS) data is now updated to the latest time frames (2019-2023, 2014-2018, 2009-2013). It is available to all users. Data can be found under many menus, including: Demographics, Incomes & Spending, Housing, Health, Quality of Life, Economy, Education, Federal Guidelines. | Demographics, Incomes & Spending, Housing, Health, Quality of Life, Economy, Education, Federal Guidelines |
01/17/2024 | Updated Data | The FFIEC HMDA (Home Mortgage and Disclosure Act) data has been updated to 2023. However, this update also includes a small refresh of our historic data to ensure that this dataset will be easier to maintain going forward. We now only show data starting in 2007 since that is the earliest date the FFIEC has data available online. The other key difference is that previous variables that related to prime and high cost/subprime mortgages were divided into two variables divided by time: prior to the 3rd quarter in 2009 and afterward. This reflected a major definition date during 2009Q3. Prior to this date high cost was defined as >= 3 times the APOR and thereafter as 1.5 times the APOR. These variables are now combined to allow for easier use of the data so a user will only see one variable instead of two for each of these categories. Caution should be made when comparing these variables after the definition change in 2009. Users will see that percent change variables will be missing for any variables that include this definition and span this definition change. | Lending > Mortgage Loans |
01/15/2025 | Updated Data | HIV diagnoses and prevalence data from the CDC has been updated to 2022. | Health > Health Conditions > Infectious Disease |
01/15/2025 | Updated Data | CDFI Fund Persistent Poverty Counties data has been updated to the latest 2024 release. | Federal Guidelines > Additional CDFI Fund Programs |
01/14/2025 | Updated Data | The HMDA home mortgage dataset from FFIEC is now updated to 2023. | Lending > Mortgage Loans |
01/10/2025 | Updated Data | Natality data from the CDC has been updated to 2023. | Health > Vital Statistics > Birth and Prenatal Care |
01/09/2025 | Updated Data | The 119th Congressional Districts were added to the Boundaries menu. | Boundaries |
