Newsletter: August 2026

by PolicyMap Team
FEATURED POST

Introducing PolicyMap’s Affordability Series: New Data on the Cost of Living in America

The cost of everyday life is climbing nationwide, and the pressure looks different depending on where you live. PolicyMap’s new Affordability Series centralizes housing, transportation, childcare, food, and healthcare cost data into curated packages built for faster, geography-specific analysis. Read more about what’s included and what’s coming next.

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Affordability Series

Affordability Series, Part 1: A New Way to Explore Income Distribution Data

Median income and poverty rates tell part of the story, but they don’t always capture the full economic makeup of a community. PolicyMap’s new Income Distribution Index offers a single, clear view of whether an area skews lower, moderate, or higher income, filling a gap that averages and medians leave behind. Read more about how it works and how to use it in your analysis.

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CUSTOMER STORY
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United Way San Antonio and Bexar County

United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County works to unite the community around its most critical issues. That means ensuring children get a safe and healthy start in life, strengthening family well-being, and providing a safety net for neighbors in need. As both a funder of local nonprofits and a direct provider of programs, United Way relies on community-level data to guide where and how it invests. To bring that data into decisions as they’re being made, United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County depends on PolicyMap.

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WEBINAR RECORDING
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Back To School Webinar with PolicyMap

This engaging webinar is designed for professors, researchers, librarians, and students looking to enhance their research and teaching with PolicyMap’s data and tools. Explore classroom applications across a range of disciplines — including public health, social sciences, marketing, economics, social work, and urban planning — so you can bring PolicyMap into your research and curriculum.

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Updated Data

The CRA Eligibility Criteria dataset has been fully updated for 2026.

BLS Local Area Unemployment (LAU) monthly statistics data has been updated for June 2026 preliminary data and May’s finalized data.

HIV Diagnoses and Prevalence from the CDC have been updated to 2024 data.

The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) credit union branches point dataset has been updated as of 2025.

CMS Medicare data has been updated through 2024

HRSA Area Health Resources Files (AHRF) has been updated to the current 2024-2025 release and is available to all users. HRSA compiles this data from multiple original sources; thus, the availability of indicators varies by year. This update includes the addition of the 2023-2024 release as well as the inclusion of percent change.

We are committed to our promise of curated, cleaned, standardized, and always updated data. We’re posting real-time updates on our website, LinkedIn and BlueSky.
In case you missed it

Published Research

Explore scholarly works from students and researchers using PolicyMap.

University Anchor Initiatives and Gentrification Vulnerability: Predictors of Neighborhoods Targeted by Place-Based Development Initiatives, published in AERA Open

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