2. Census Business Bui lder
Census Business Builder is a dashboard tool that helps (potential) business owners better understand their market areas, competitors, and potential customers. Even though targeted at entrepreneurs, its features can help Extension professionals learn about establishments in their areas and interactively explore resident characteristics. It combines data from the American Community Survey, County Business Patterns, Economic Census, Quarterly Workforce Indicators, Census of Agriculture, and others to generate maps and provide information about population sociodemographic characteristics, spending, workforce, and select economic indicators for both large areas like states and small geographies like ZIP code or census tract. The tool allows you to download your data or generate interactive reports, and then you can then save, print, or export.
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3. OnTheMap for Emergency Management
OnTheMap for Emergency Management provides population, workforce, and housing characteristics for areas under federal disaster declarations due to tropical storms, winter weather, wildfires, floods, and other causes. The tool allows you to select an area by name, declaration, or type of emergency. It generates interactive maps, tables, and plots that can help you quickly understand the area at risk.
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