Metrics -Community Counts
Our area at-a-glance
For your benefit, we have some statistics that give a better look at how Jefferson County functions economically through the lens of health status, age factors,
graduate data & unemployment aid
We have made them available to you for download or to view directly online for ease of use.
Simply choose your desired format from the links under the heading of each file listed below.
Depending on your operating system and web-browser, you may need to right-click (PC) or control-click (Mac) to download linked files.
2003 Health of Jefferson County.txt
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Changing Ages.pdf
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College Earnings.pdf
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Grad Stats.pdf
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Jobless Recovery.pdf
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Many Communities and Counties prepare fact sheets with relevant community and economic information. These county/community profiles come in a variety of shapes and sizes but the following represents a sampling of County profiles, or data that you might want to include in a profile. Obviously, thought should be given to the intended audience for the profiles before making a decision about what to include in your community profile.
The International Economic Development Council has actually given this issue a lot of attention and has developed a set of site selection data standards which include 25 tables containing approximately 1,200 data fields for state, county, metro, locality, building and site profiles. You can download the data standards worksheet in Excel format from their web site.
- American Factfinder, U.S. Census
- BearFacts, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, downloadable economic data.
- Community Economic Toolbox , Developed by Penn State University. You select the state and then the county that you're interested in examining. After that, you'll be led through each step of the toolbox. In some of the tools you will be able to download data. You can always copy the graphics produced in the toolbox for your own report and public presentations.
- Community Indicators, by the Center for Community Economic Development
- Census of Agriculture (2002), United States Department of Agriculture . The Census of Agriculture is done every 5 years. Use the "Query Downloadable Options" for securing County and state level data.
- Community Economic Development HotReport - The CED HotReport provides community and business leaders speedy access to information tailored to economic development decision-making. It is a free, easy to use portal to instantly obtain detailed information for local and regional areas on a wide variety of topics from a multitude of sources. The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), the Economic Development Administration (EDA), the Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA) and the U.S. Census Bureau collaboratively designed the CED HotReport with local and regional experts to help communities and businesses plan for economic expansions and contractions using the best available information.
- County Quick Facts, by the U.S. Census
- DataPlace, A "one-stop" source for data about your community or any place in the US developed specifically for housing and community development professionals.. A KnowledgePlex product sponsored by the Fannie Mae Foundation. Look up demographic, economic, housing, and mortgage lending data from US Census, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, and other data sets. Find key statistics on any region in the US through maps, charts, tables and rankings. Click here for a ten minute on-line video where I demonstrate how to begin using this site!
- EconData.Net, Includes a thousand links to socioeconomic data sources, arranged by subject and provider, to point users to the best regional economic data sources.
- Economic Census, The Economic Census profiles American business every 5 years, from the national to the local level. Unless otherwise noted, reports focus on the 7 million establishments with paid employees (employers). Only two series also include the 17 million much smaller businesses without paid employees (non-employers).
- Economic Research Service/U.S. Department of Agriculture. ERS provides a simple to use mapping feature to create visual profiles. See also, "Rural America at a Glance"
- Location Quotient Calculator, U.S. Department of Labor
- On the Map - An interactive mapping application that shows in high definition where people live and where they work. This application was developed through a partnership between the US Census Bureau and its Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partner states.
- Quarterly Workforce Indicators: U.S. Census, NAICS data by year and quarter. QWI measure the performance of the local economy - where jobs are, for what kind of workers, how much workers can expect to make and employers expect to pay them.
- SETA: Office of Social and Economic Trend Analysis , Iowa State collects, analyzes, interprets, and disseminate information on social, economic, and demographic trends in support of community and regional analysis with emphasis on Iowa (but also includes data on Wisconsin!). This web-site is being updated to include data on all 50 states....see SETA Take Charge!
- Shift-Share Analysis Calculator, University of Georgia
- Social Explorer, Provides demographic information in an easily understood format: data maps. They have created hundreds of interactive data maps of the United States. The beta version is supported by the National Science Foundation and New York Times. The beta version is focused on New York, but data for other areas is available in the "map" section. Data is initially presented only at the County level, but you can map data at the census block level by using the area report tool.
- Sonoran Institute's Economic Profile System (EPS), EPS allows anyone to automatically and efficiently produce customized socio-economic profiles for any geography in the United States. The profile contains tables and figures that illustrate long-term trends in population, employment, personal income, business development, retirement, commuting patterns, agriculture and more. The files that need to be downloaded are very large.
- State of the Cities Database (SOCDS), HUD provides data on Building Permits, FBI crime rates, housing affordability, and other demographic data.
- Tiger Maps (Base Maps), U.S. Census: At the bottom of the page, type in the name of the County and the state, and then click on "search".
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- World Mapper, A collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.. A great tool for gaining a better perspective of the global market place.