Boston Religious Affiliation

When you think about Boston stereotypes, you likely think about Boston as being home to many Catholic people. This isn’t without merit—Boston is in the top 50 of all metropolitan areas for Catholic residents – 4th for metro areas with more than 1M residents – and is...

Geospatial Deep Diving with Census Blocks

For many years, the standard detail geography which AGS has provided to users has been the census block group. Only those who read through our methodology statements knew that you could order your In-n-Out double-double ‘animal style’, since it certainly wasn’t posted...

Exploring the Business Landscape

The ‘business demographics’ of an area are important to location analysts because they can be used to enhance sales estimates and because they can be used to assess the competitive landscape. Twenty years ago, the demographics of businesses were well behind...

The Perils of Projections

One of the great economists of the last century, John Kenneth Galbraith, once quipped that “the only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” The same can be said for pretty much anything that we foolishly insist on forecasting –...

Canada Population Projections

Last year, we released basic demographics for Canada. In line with our U.S. demographics, we have expanded the Canadian Demographics database to include estimates and projections. In addition to greatly expanding the list of current estimates, we are adding a set of...