January 2019 Data Update

New, exclusively on PolicyMap: Consumer Spending Habits data, with indicators on total spending and spending on housing, food, food at home, food away from home, alcohol, and education. Read more about this premium subscriber-only data.

Employment by industry data from the BLS’s Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) is updated to 2017.

Superfund and Brownfield sites from the EPA are updated through 2018.

Minimum wage by state from the Department of Labor is updated to January 1, 2019.

Bank branch locations from the FDIC are updated through 2018.

New Markets Tax Credit projects and transactions from the CDFI Fund are updated to include data from 2007-2011 and 2012-2016.

Residential and business vacancy data from Valassis is updated with the first three quarters of 2018. Read more about this subscriber-only data.

Library locations from the Libraries Survey of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is now updated through 2016 (the most recent available data).

Predominant country of birth among the foreign-born population is updated to 2013-2017.

Local median household income as a share of area median household income and local median family income as a share of area median family income (often called Low Mod) are updated to 2013-2017.

The Diversity Index and Predominant Race indicators are updated to 2013-2017.

Census data on students in poverty is updated to 2017 and data on SNAP recipients is updated to 2016.