The Suburbanization of Renters

Two revolutions in transportation have left an indelible mark on the American city. Prior to the early 1900s, most cities were compact and oriented towards a downtown employment area. Cities couldn’t grow beyond a certain size for practical reasons: people needed to...

Vacant Housing

New in the 2023B release, we are expanding our vacant dwellings data to include the reason for vacancy. This helps us distinguish between temporarily and permanently vacant dwellings and it gives us a better handle on tourist activity via seasonal/occasional use...

The Heart of the Matter

In many articles on the census disclosure avoidance program, we have hammered away at the damage inflicted on the 2020 census by a well-intentioned but overly complex and likely poorly implemented attempt at maintaining privacy. We published maps and tables, coined...

Disclosure Avoidance Woes

A few weeks ago, we looked at the male/female ratio of 21-year-olds at the block group level to highlight the issues in the 2020 census data. Some readers pointed out that while this was interesting, most of their analyses are for radius or drive time areas, and...