by Elyse Menger | Mar 17, 2022 | City Series
Baltimore, Maryland, was settled in 1661 by European colonists. Once a major center for flour trade due to innovations in processing and development in the milling process, then the city that developed the first printing press and newspaper, the Baltimore of today is...
by Elyse Menger | Mar 17, 2022 | City Series
Boston has a long history, first settled in 1630 by Puritan colonists. The city quickly became the center of New England and the center of the American Revolution. Today, Boston is the 24th largest city in the U.S., home to 685,146 people. When you look at the larger...
by Gary Menger | Mar 10, 2022 | Maps
In his inaugural state of the union address in early 1964, President Johnson declared war against poverty by implementing a wide range of federal programs aimed at improving the living conditions for residents of low-income neighborhoods, improving access to job...
by Gary Menger | Mar 10, 2022 | Maps
Over the past decade, gentrification has become a hot button in the politics of many American cities. Gentrification is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of affluent residents and businesses. While increasing the economic...
by Elyse Menger | Mar 3, 2022 | Maps
As war wages in Ukraine, Europe, and likely countries outside of Europe, will face a refugee crisis. Already well over half a million people have fled Ukraine in search of safety. Here in the United States, our population that lists Ukrainian as their ancestry is...
by Elyse Menger | Mar 3, 2022 | Maps
If you have been to the gas station in the last few weeks, there is no denying that it hurt a little bit when you saw the charges rack up before your eyes. Demand is up, production is down, inflation is at a record high and the war in Ukraine are all impacting the...
by Elyse Menger | Feb 24, 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 February 2022. Census Bureau As...
by Gary Menger | Feb 24, 2022 | Maps, Non-Resident Population
We recently ran across a post that looked at housing vacancies in Manhattan that was interesting but got us thinking. Most standard demographic reports include a reference to the number of housing units which are estimated to be currently vacant, and this can be an...
by Gary Menger | Feb 17, 2022 | Maps, Methodology, Why AGS
The ZIP code is commonly used in business applications for two primary reasons – they are well recognized and utilized as the core geographic identifier in a wide range of both postal and non-postal sources. Because they are created by the post office for the purpose...
by Elyse Menger | Feb 17, 2022 | Current Events
If you’ve been watching the Olympics, you have likely seen a commercial where a young girl watches Olympian Elana Meyers Taylor on TV with a glimmer in her eye that she, too, could be a gold medalist one day. The Olympics make us think that anyone can represent their...
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