Headwaters Data Profiles
Headwaters Economics is a nonprofit research group focusing on community development and land management. Offered here are a number of tools designed to assess various types of risk at the county or community level. The socio-economic profile tool generates targeted pdf reports looking at demographics, populations at risk, trends, and key indicators. Two functions unique to this resource are land management reports, looking at public and private lands and the populations in their proximity, and reports on industries, including employment and industry trends, investments, income, and wages.
User expertise rating:
Beginner. This is a great resource for generating targeted pdf data profiles that include topics not commonly found in such applications. Geographies include municipalities, Tribal areas, counties, and states.
Sample questions:
Which census tracts have the highest overlap of people living in poverty and high impervious surface cover, indicating vulnerability to heat and a priority area for urban forestry or cooling centers? How has the ratio of service-related employment changed relative to non-services (such as agriculture and manufacturing) in a given county over the last 20 years, and what does this shift mean for workforce development?
