Census 2020 Update and Integration Plan
If you are like us, you have been refreshing the Census Bureau’s website weekly looking for the latest information about when the 2020 data will be released to the public. It was recently announced that the apportionment count, used officially for redistricting, will...
Storm Surge Risk Index
For many years, AGS has published risk indexes for the four major damaging weather events – hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, and high winds. While hurricane damage is usually most extensive along the coast, hurricane damage vulnerability extends even as far inland as the...
Terrain Ruggedness Index: 2021A Sneak Peek
At the end of 2020, we teased a map showing a new Terrain Ruggedness Index that we promised would be coming to the AGS lineup in 2021. We are excited to share with you the sneak peek of the index that will be released this spring. Adapted from academic work, the...
Unemployment Data Updates 2021: When Dull Data Suddenly Becomes Interesting
During the last few months of 2020, unemployment rates were declining most everywhere and trending towards the record low levels from just before the pandemic. Since unchanging weekly data is neither interesting to model nor interesting to use, we decided to switch to...
Drive Time Study Areas
One of the major innovations in trade area reporting came in the mid-1990’s with the introduction of the Freeway drive time engine which was actually the first product that AGS created. By using a grid representation of the road network, Freeway was able to produce...
Metropolitan Changes by Decade
Last week, we looked at the population change over the last 50 years. This week, we are looking at the metro level change by decade, from 1970 to 2030 (projected). We see some interesting patterns emerge in the maps. It seems as if metropolitan areas have fads and...
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