by Elyse Menger | May 9, 2024 | Non-Resident Population
Tourism can have significant impacts on retail sales, especially those related to convenience goods and food services. Over the years, many retail models have been built that use only the demographics of local residents while ignoring entirely the impacts that...
by Elyse Menger | Jun 8, 2023 | Non-Resident Population
Some of the best summer beach vacation spots are also known for summer traffic. Friday night coming in, Sunday afternoon going out to be home in time for work on Monday. On the Atlantic coast, it seems that the best beach towns are located on offshore barrier islands,...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 7, 2022 | Database Overview, Non-Resident Population
What started out as a project to keep the data team busy (and inside) during the early days of Covid lockdown has quickly become one of our customer’s favorite databases. The impact of the non-resident population on a site – restaurant or retail – can be substantial,...
by Gary Menger | Jul 7, 2022 | Non-Resident Population
In Toronto, where I grew up, the summer ritual for many middle-income families included the trek from the city to cottage country every weekend from Victoria Day (May 24th) to Labor Day. The weekly migration of the herds could have easily been a National Geographic...
by Elyse Menger | Mar 24, 2022 | Maps, Non-Resident Population
It’s that time of year, when everyone seems to get an itch to go to the beach, go skiing, or go see family just to get out of the house. Spring Break is back, and maybe bigger than ever. According to a survey by Vacasa, a travel website, 56% of Americans are planning...
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...
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