by Elyse Menger | Nov 3, 2022 | City Series
In 1982, Billy Joel released “Allentown”, a song about a town that is struggling once mining and manufacturing jobs have gone elsewhere. Allentown, Pennsylvania is the third largest city in the state, and the entire metropolitan area is the 68th largest in the...
by Elyse Menger | Nov 3, 2022 | City Series
Scranton, the Electric City, might be best known these days as the city where the hit NBC TV show, The Office, took place. But long before Jim was playing pranks on Dwight, Scranton was an industrial hub where coal mining and industrial improvements put them on the...
by Elyse Menger | Oct 27, 2022 | Maps
The population of the United States has more than doubled since 1950, and along with that growth has been a substantial shift in the demographic makeup of the population. In 1950, 97.5% of the population was either non-Hispanic White or Black. By 2020, the Hispanic...
by Elyse Menger | Oct 27, 2022 | 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 October 2022. SiteSeer Even if...
by Elyse Menger | Oct 20, 2022 | Product Sneak Peek
We are a few weeks away from the release of our bi-annual data update, 2022B. While historically the second release of the year doesn’t include many new databases and just serves as a true update, this year we have some tricks up our sleeves. Here is a rundown of...
by Elyse Menger | Oct 20, 2022 | Partner Posts
Lodging Analytics Research and Consulting (LARC) provides a full suite of premium services to assist real estate and lodging companies to formulate astute business decisions through transparent and advanced analytics driven forecasting. Later this year, they will...
by Gary Menger | Oct 13, 2022 | Methodology
One of the more persistent issues in geospatial analysis is that of consistency in time series analysis. We can’t help but want to compare the growth of one city against another over time. Time is the easy part – a year today is the same as a year in millennia past,...
by Gary Menger | Oct 13, 2022 | Maps
A few weeks ago, we examined the changes to the patterns of manufacturing employment and a natural follow-up is to consider the impacts on regional income. Income is particularly difficult to study over time since the geographic study areas change over time as does...
by Elyse Menger | Oct 6, 2022 | Product Sneak Peek, Quality of Life
What makes one area more desirable as a place to live than others? We suspect that if we asked one hundred people that question, we would get at least a hundred different answers. For decades, people headed west for the scenery, climate, leisure, and economic...
by Elyse Menger | Sep 29, 2022 | Employment Data, Maps
It is common knowledge that over the past few decades, the American economy has shifted away from manufacturing as we move towards being a service and information economy. At its peak in 1979, manufacturing employed over 19 million workers, which was over 22% of...
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