Plan strategically for your library services using up-to-date and relevant community data.
Ensure the future direction of your library is consistent with the needs of your community.
Access tens of thousands of data points to create maps, reports and analyses designed to provide you with a deeper understanding of your changing community and help you plan successfully for the future of your library.
Get instant access to the web’s largest place-based data library
Explore maps and create custom reports of data related to demographics, transit access, occupations, family composition, education and more. Available data is continuously updated.
Focus on interpreting data, not on time-intensive data collection
With tens of thousands of data points available for mapping and reporting, you can start analyzing your community from the moment you sign up.
Upload your own patron data or program information
Visualize where your patrons live on a map and identify demographic shifts in those neighborhoods.
Data for Public Libraries
PolicyMap contains a wide array of community-level data ranging from age characteristics, to education levels, to transit access, to school performance, to occupations, and family composition.
Our sources
All sources are authoritative public sources or proprietary vendors.
Features
Make maps. Fast.
Visualize the latest demographics from Census as well as unique third-party data.
Upload your own address-level data.
Use our unlimited self-service data loader to overlay your data on top of PolicyMap's.
Download data.
Download our data for use in your own research, mapping and presentation tools.
Easily create market reports.
Run reports for predefined areas like counties and school districts, or create a custom area.
Find areas that meet up-to-three criteria.
Use our unique 3-Layer Maps tool for site selection, to find hot spots or target specific areas.
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