Students and Universities

"I've found that PolicyMap is a very effective tool in transforming students from research consumers to research producers. In the past, my introductory research class students became discouraged before they could produce results. I asked students to use PolicyMap to tell me some distinctive qualities of their own neighborhood, they were on the site and producing maps and analyses very quickly."
- Mark Stern,
  Professor of Social Welfare and History Co-Director, Urban Studies program University of Pennsylvania

PolicyMap provides students and library users with the data they need to conduct neighborhood based analysis for their research and studies. PolicyMap offers its data as maps, tables, charts and reports that can be incorporated into papers, presentations, blogs and websites.

PolicyMap's key features include:

With PolicyMap, students and faculty can:

  • Generate maps and tables to incorporate in reports and presentations
  • Search by address, city, state, zip code, county or census tract
  • Create topical reports by predefined region, radius, or custom-drawn region
  • Compare data across geographies or view trends over time
  • Find communities meeting up to 3 criteria on a map
  • Download select datasets as csv files
  • Rank geographies across an indicator
  • Create custom regions for unique analysis

Have access to thousands of indicators, including:

  • Demographic estimates and projections
  • Income and poverty measures
  • Employment by industry
  • Homeownership rates and affordability
  • Home Sales
  • School performance
  • Quick community profiles

View a complete list of our data.

Spend more time analyzing data, less time finding it.

Make Informed Decisions

PolicyMap can help you answer questions such as:

  • Where are single female headed households with children concentrated?
  • How many residents have a high school degree or greater as their highest level of education?
  • Where are households making charitable contributions?
  • Where are people currently unemployed, and how is unemployment changing each month?

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