Top 10: Zip Codes with Largest Percent of Housing Units Built Before 1940
To see where the nation’s aging housing stock is, we can look at Census and Claritas estimates, with detail down to the block group. Other age buckets include houses built in 1940-1969, 1970-1994,...
View ArticleNew Jobs & Economy Data! New Jobs & Economy Menu!
The Census released 2008 zip code level data on the number of jobs by employment sector and now you can see the latest on PolicyMap. The dynamic map below shows information on the manufacturing...
View ArticleMarch 2012 Updates
PolicyMap in the News The Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal recently featured an article entitled PolicyMap: An Innovative Data Collection and Analysis Tool for all Sectors. We are thrilled to be...
View ArticleWelcome to PolicyMap’s newest blog series – Tips on ZIPs!
Tips on ZIPs – Part I: The Unmappable ZIP Code We’d like to fill you in on some of the great mysteries of US ZIP codes. Why is PolicyMap blogging about the mail, you ask? While our data is not...
View ArticleTips on ZIPs – Part II: A Brief History US Postal Codes
Although ZIP codes may seem all too common and ubiquitous today, unless you can remember a time when mailing a letter cost you less than a nickel, you might not have known that ZIP codes were only...
View ArticleTips on ZIPs – Part III: Making Sense of ZIP code Boundaries
WHAT MORE COULD THERE BE TO KNOW ABOUT ZIPS? We introduced in the last post how ZIP codes were first introduced in the 1960s and how they were developed to help the Postal Service improve nationwide...
View ArticleCelebrating 50 Years of the Zip Code: Using Zips to Understand College Diversity
Happy Birthday to the Zip Code! Despite the doggedness of the zip code, having been around for 50 years now, we here at PolicyMap have a bittersweet relationship with zip codes. As our blogger Dave...
View ArticleThe Changing of the ZIPs
ZIP codes are always changing, and PolicyMap continues to reflect the changes. The post The Changing of the ZIPs appeared first on PolicyMap.
View ArticleWhat are Zip Code Tabulation Areas?
PolicyMap now has Zip Code Tabulation Areas. They're like regular Zip Codes, except made by the Census instead of the USPS. The post What are Zip Code Tabulation Areas? appeared first on PolicyMap.
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