Aging Population and Migration
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...
Changing 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...
Only Fools Rush In
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...
How special is “specialty”? Contrasting the location strategies of specialty grocery chains and traditional supermarkets in the United States
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...
Why AGS: Unparalleled Range of Data
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...
Diversity and Income
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...
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