The Smart Location Database is designed to measure location efficiency—transportation costs and environmental impact, in particular. It includes more than 90 attributes summarizing characteristics such as housing density, diversity of land use, neighborhood design, destination accessibility, transit service, employment, and demographics.
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The Social Vulnerability Interactive (SVI) Map, a product of the CDC Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, displays vulnerability indices for four categories: socioeconomic status, household characteristics, racial and ethnic minority status, and housing type and transportation.
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The Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool (RAPT) allows users to combine layers of community resilience indicators, infrastructure locations and hazard data. Users can visualize community resilience challenges to inform decisions around preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery.
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The Center on Rural Innovation (CORI) Economic Development tool allows users to create a custom dashboard of indicators focused on the strengths and weaknesses of the selected area’s economy.
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UW Extension’s Community Development Institute developed this comprehensive collection of data sources that are essential for communities to plan broadband implementations.
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The data in the PLACES interactive tool is model generated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from various data sources. The map displays a comprehensive list of health related data from the county level down to the Census Tract level.
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The U.S. Census County Profiles offer a comprehensive and current socio-economic picture of each county in Wisconsin from economic, employment, and housing data to health, education, and demographics.
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This census data visualization tool from the American Immigration Council centers on the economic impact of immigrants as found in ACS data. Topics include immigrant population share, taxes paid, spending power, number of entrepreneurs, and eligible voters.
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The Net Migration tool from the UW Applied Population Lab allows users to access a migration profile for each Wisconsin County for the decade starting in 2010.
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The USDA Food Access Research Atlas and associated mapping tools provide county-level data identifying low-access areas by measuring the number of various types of food stores or markets by county and showing access indicators for different populations.
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