Bilingual Households

As our society becomes more diverse, there are many households where English is not the primary language spoken at home. For advertisers, marketers, and even with site selection, looking at these data variables can prove to be crucial to your plans. Using current year...

2020B Sneak Peek: Non-Resident Population

The AGS ‘2020B’ release in November will include the fruits of our lockdown efforts over these past few months, most of which have been leaked on these pages. Earlier this year, we debuted a new data set: Non-Resident Population. On any given night in a normal year,...

Void Analysis with Sites USA

Empty leases are one of those constant struggles for any landlord with retail space. Finding the right tenant to match your available space and matching the other tenants in your center can be a hard thing to do. Then there is the global pandemic. Large and small...

Data Focus: Ancestry

Among the many current-year estimates we build from the American Community Survey and decennial Census is ancestry. The ACS asks the question in the following manner – “What is this person’s ancestry or ethnic origin? (For example: Italian, Jamaican,...

Unemployment Models At Six Months

For at least a decade, the AGS labor force models have been fairly stable in terms of data sources and techniques, using a combination of the annual American Community Survey (ACS) block group data and the monthly unemployment updates for states and large metropolitan...