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Practice Area 03

Know a neighborhood like you grew up in it.

Every ZIP code in the country has a story sitting in public data. We built the engine that reads it, and we read it with you. Custom area reports, community consultations, and grant-support data for the people betting on a place.

What's in a report
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Live public data sources
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People

Age, race and ethnicity, household income, poverty, education, language, and how all of it has shifted since 2010.

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Housing

Rent burden, home values, vacancy, eviction filings, subsidized housing supply, and mortgage lending patterns.

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Economy & work

Current unemployment, wage profiles, where residents actually work, and what industries hold the area up.

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Health

Obesity, diabetes, depression, insurance gaps, life expectancy, and provider shortages, down to the tract.

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Food access

Federal food desert designations and the share of residents who are both low-income and far from a grocery store.

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Vulnerability

The CDC's Social Vulnerability Index: how a neighborhood ranks against every other tract in the country.

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Institutions

Churches by denomination, schools, libraries, clinics, parks, and community centers, mapped and counted.

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Local signals

Recent local news coverage, FEMA disaster declarations, and building permits. What is happening now, not five years ago.

Built on public data: US Census Bureau, CDC, HUD, BLS, USDA, FEMA, FFIEC, OpenStreetMap, and more. Every figure in every report carries its source and its year. Developed in consultation with city planners.

The deliverable

A report a person can read.

Most demographic tools hand you a spreadsheet and wish you luck. Ours writes the story: who lives in the area, what they earn, how they're housed, where the pressure points are. Charts where charts help, plain sentences where they don't.

It arrives as a styled PDF with a full works-cited section. Your grant reviewer, your board, and your bank can check every number against the original source.

Community Report · Sample
Allen, TX · ZIP 75002
Source: ACS 5-Year, table B19001 · sample data for illustration

Hover or tap a bar, point, or stat. Every real report is fully cited.

Three ways to work with us
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Custom Area Reports

Give us a ZIP code, a city, a county, or draw the boundary yourself, a school catchment, a parish, a delivery zone. We build an in-depth report on who lives there: population, income, housing, health, institutions, all of it benchmarked against national numbers and cited to the original dataset. You get a styled PDF you can hand to a board, a lender, or a city council.

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Community Consultations

A report answers who lives here. A consultation answers what that means for you. We sit down with your team, walk through the data together, and connect it to the decision in front of you: where to open, what to offer, who you're missing. You leave knowing your community better than most people who've lived in it for decades.

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Grant-Support Data Packages

Most grant applications die on the needs assessment. Funders want cited evidence of need: poverty rates, cost-burdened households, health disparities, food access. We package the exact numbers your application calls for, with sources and vintages attached to every figure, in the format reviewers expect to see.

How it works
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Tell us the area

A ZIP code, a city name, a county, or a boundary you sketch on a map. One conversation about what you're trying to decide, so the report answers your question instead of burying it.

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We build the report

The engine pulls live data from more than twenty public sources and we shape it into something a person can actually read. Days, not months.

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We walk through it together

You don't get a PDF and a goodbye. We go through the findings with you, flag what surprised us, and stay available when your board has questions.

Who this is for

Anyone betting on a place: nonprofits, schools, planners, churches, and businesses from Main Street to the Fortune 500.

  • You're writing a grant and need cited numbers on poverty, housing, or health
  • You're opening a location, planting a church, or expanding a program and want to know who's there first
  • You're entering a new market and need to understand it before the budget gets spent
  • You serve an area every day but have never seen it laid out in the data
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