by Elyse Menger | Jul 27, 2023 | Monthly Round-Ups
July Round-up: 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 July 2023. Sites...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 27, 2023 | Demographics, Maps
Over the past several decades, the median age of the population has been steadily rising from 29.3 in 1980 to 37.8 in 2023. People are waiting longer to start families and having fewer children. The impacts of this are well known: the stress on Social Security and...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 20, 2023 | Current Events, Demographics
This weekend, the New York Times published an article titled “How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World”. Of course, it caught our eye. The article talked about how the world is going to experience a major shift, particularly in age, over the next few...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 20, 2023 | Census
As many of you know, after many delays the Census Bureau finally released the DHC (Demographic and Housing Characteristics) file at the end of May. This eagerly anticipated set of files includes many essential core tables, such as population by age and sex, race by...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 13, 2023 | Partner Posts
Professionals in the world of retail real estate can easily describe the differences between traditional supermarkets and specialty grocery chains, either theoretically or anecdotally. We all know that specialty grocery chains like Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, or the...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 13, 2023 | Why AGS
One of the things that makes AGS so unique is that we are truly a one-stop data shop. We have over 40,000 raw elements for every block group nationwide and select elements for census blocks. These elements range from demographics to neighborhood segmentation to...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 6, 2023 | Demographics
Diversity is largely seen as something positive: get people together from different backgrounds and viewpoints to better understand the world around you as it is seen by people who are different than you. But what does ‘diverse’ actually mean? And how can we track...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 6, 2023 | Climate Data
While we are known for our demographic data, our geographic based data, like our suite of environmental data, has been trusted for many years by our clients. A wide range of applications benefit from these databases, including insurance underwriting, retail...
by Elyse Menger | Jun 29, 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 June 2023. Fox Business At first...
by Elyse Menger | Jun 29, 2023 | Menger's Musings
There is no doubt that we live in increasingly troubled times. The news is an endless stream of negativity: crime, homelessness, drug abuse, border issues, gender politics, inflation, interest rates, and international tensions. Many of us, on both sides of the aisle,...
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