Research Guides: Metropolitan Studies: Datasets and Statistics

Datasets and Statistics

Explore Census Data
Provides access to the Census Bureau data and content in a single place.
Try searching the name of a city and a keyword relevant to the info you want. For example: Baltimore city employment

PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
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U.S. national data and mapping tool and analytics platform with multidisciplinary applications for college students and faculty. Undergraduate and graduate schools use us in their curriculum and research related to social sciences, urban studies, real estate and housing analysis, community and economic development, public administration, public health, policy and political science, education, business, economics, statistics, and geography, among others.

Users can leverage thousands of U.S. data indicators in PolicyMap to perform demographic and socioeconomic analysis, from a neighborhood census block group in many cases, up to a national level, as well as create custom regions, for their research and studies.
ICPSR: Find & Analyze Data This link opens in a new window
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Composed of a consortium of over 700 academic and research institutions, ICPSR is a data archive containing over 500,000 data files that have been submitted by research teams, and are available for download by TU users. Included is the Bibliography of Data Related Literature; searching this bibliography allows users to locate literature that uses ICPSR data.

America's Top-Rated Cities by Laura Mars (Editor)
Provides current, comprehensive statistical information, and other essential data, on the top cities that have been cited as the best for business and living in the United States.

City Data from State Data Lab
This site is a project of Truth in Accounting and provides financial and other data.