by Elyse Menger | Sep 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
The spatial pattern of health care delivery has long been dominated by the clustering of services around hospitals. Most specialist care can be found there, in groups of medical offices in the surrounding area. While general practitioners tend to be more spatially...
by Elyse Menger | Sep 7, 2023 | Business Data, Menger's Musings
Understanding the patterns of change at a local level is always an important component of location research. Is the area growing or declining over time? Have there been significant shifts in the demographic makeup? How is the business landscape changing? Is overall...
by Elyse Menger | Aug 31, 2023 | Covid-19 and Data, Employment Data, Retail Data
The restrictions imposed on retail oriented businesses during the COVID pandemic had substantial effects on retail employment. At a local level, the effects were very much dependent upon the particular type of retail and the specific policies enacted at local and...
by Elyse Menger | Aug 31, 2023 | Monthly Round-Ups
At the end of each month, the AGS team looks back at articles and blog posts that we saw this month that stood out to us. Some are from news agencies, and many come from our partners, but not all use our data. Here is the round-up from August 2023. Vox Remember when...
by Elyse Menger | Aug 24, 2023 | Demographics, Maps
Around 56.8 million kids return to school this month to attend grades 1-12, and nearly 6.5 million of them won’t be attending the local public school. In the last few years, private school enrollment has increased for various reasons, but it isn’t an equal increase...
by Elyse Menger | Aug 24, 2023 | Demographics, Employment Data
When you think about a college town, you might think about a town where people put out a lot of college memorabilia in their yard or even how many bars are in a one mile ring around campus. For our purposes, we looked at true college towns with two demographic...
by Elyse Menger | Aug 10, 2023 | Canada Data
We are excited to announce the release of new Canada data in collaboration with Exceed Analysis. All of the Canadian databases have received an update, including CrimeRisk Canada. Keep reading for more details about the databases and to see sample maps. If you missed...
by Elyse Menger | Aug 10, 2023 | Canada Data
In recent decades, much of the population growth in Canada has come from immigration. With a national population just shy of forty million, over 25% of the population are first generation immigrants and over 1 million came as refugees. The nationality of immigrants...
by Elyse Menger | Aug 3, 2023 | Maps
The share of total employment in the United States accounted for by government agencies (both national and local) has grown substantially since the beginning of World War II. In 1948, governments employed about 4.5 million workers – or 7.5% of the labor force (St....
by Elyse Menger | Aug 3, 2023 | Partner Posts
If you are familiar with AGS, you have likely heard of our industry leading crime database, CrimeRisk. But how does it fit into site selection? We’ve teamed up with Kalibrate to present a webinar session exploring how retailers can ensure they’re leveraging the most...
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