Also new is the ability to layer more than one custom region onto your map!
Go to our custom region tutorial to learn more about how to use these new custom region features or contact our help desk at any time.
You can see this data for free under the Real Estate Conditions tab in the Add Data Layer menu.
NEW! Cars and How People Get to Work: Data on how people get to work, how long it takes them to get there and how many cars the average household owns is now available. Data from 2000 comes from the Census and is available to the public. Current year estimates and 5-year projections are available to subscribers from Claritas, Inc. You can see this data at a national level, but more importantly you can drill down into the neighborhoods you care about to see information at a block group or census tract level.
Find this data in the Commute to Work section under the Neighborhood Conditions tab in the Add Data Layer menu.
NEW! Obesity, Diabetes, and Food Related Assistance: You’ll find some of the health statistics recently made available by the USDA through its Food Environment Atlas, mapped and available in tables on PolicyMap. This data includes statistics on obesity, diabetes and the availability of assistance under the SNAP (formerly Food Stamps) or WIC programs.
You can find this data for free under the Health tab in the Add Data Layer menu.
UPDATED! Monthly Unemployment from the BLS: Check out the latest November and December 2009 employment, unemployment, and labor force data for states, counties, metropolitan areas, and many cities, by place of residence. This data is updated monthly on PolicyMap and is available as far back as 2000.
Find this data for free under the Jobs & Economy tab in the Add Data Layer menu.
To see some widgets in action on other pages, check these out: Adecco Group Stats Indiana
The beautiful part about these widgets is that as soon as new data is available, PolicyMap updates it for www.policymap.com and the new data is automatically updated in your widget. Learn more .
Library Licenses: The University of Pennsylvania Library is now a subscriber to PolicyMap. This means that if you are an authorized user of the library system, you now have unlimited access to PolicyMap for your school and research work. If you know of a library that might be interested, have them contact us .