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A Closer Look: The Latest Mortgage Trends
Under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, lending institutions are required to report refinancing activity, home purchase loans and government-insured loans. PolicyMap recently rolled HMDA data for 2009 into our online collection of socioeconomic indictors, helping users understand significant new trends. … Continue reading
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A Closer Look: Education Data from the Federal Education Budget Project
Every year a public policy think tank called the New America Foundation releases a stream of national education data on school districts throughout the country. The Federal Education Budget Project culls from such varied data sources as the National Center … Continue reading
A Closer Look: Updated Immigration Data
We recently updated PolicyMap’s immigration data, which has statistics regarding the (American) states in which green cards were received by immigrants from different countries and regions. There are three forms of data provided: Number of people who received green cards … Continue reading
A Closer Look: CRA Eligible Tracts and Tract Median Family Income
CRA Eligible Tracts and Tract Median Family Income as a percent of AMI The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was passed by Congress in 1977 to encourage banks to extend credit to low and moderate income Americans. The Act was a … Continue reading
A Closer Look: Single-Sex Census Tracts II
Last time, we looked at the views of prisons that make up the most predominantly male census tracts. This time, we’ll look at some of the most female census tracts. As you may recall from the top 10 post on … Continue reading
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Tagged Census Tract, Concentration of Males, Female to Male Ratio, US Census
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A Closer Look: Single-Sex Census Tracts
You may recall a little while ago, we looked at the top 10 census tracts in the country in terms of percentage male and female. If you don’t remember what was unique about many of these tracts, these might jog … Continue reading
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A Closer Look: 2009 Q4 Wrap-up for Home Sales
Despite the struggling economy, the oceanside housing market showed admirable strength in the last quarter of 2009. Zip code 11937, located in The Hamptons, showed the greatest volume of sales at $796,525,999.00. With a median home sale price of $945,000 … Continue reading
A Closer Look: Small Business and Small Farm Lending
Small businesses lending is a marker of vitality, innovation and economic well being of a place. New businesses, often emerging in the form of small businesses, contribute to job creation as well as growth of other support industries to an … Continue reading