In 2017, a study entitled The Geography of Prosperity created a Vitality Index for the United States combining median household income, poverty rate, life expectancy, prime-age employment (25-54), housing vacancy rate, and the unemployment rate. According to the study’s findings, growing gaps in economic growth exist between states and between counties within states. Table 1 compares […]

Recently the United States Census Bureau pushed out a new update for their Census 2020 Hard to Count Map. The map itself identifies which Census tracts are expected to have response rates lower than 73% based on various demographic and historic data. The new updates allow the map to be overlaid with additional information that […]