Family and work
Households with people under 18, and own children in families and subfamilies whose available parents are in the labor force.
Family / housing / work
Start with a place. Add the context.
Nine connected questions for a community decision, with the source populations kept separate and the next local checks made clear.
Explore 12,500 Census-defined places across all 50 states. Each kit compares the named place with its state and the United States, using ACS 2020-2024 five-year estimates and 2024 place boundaries.
Find a communityWhat each kit connects
Housing costs
Selected monthly owner costs relative to income, with mortgage status and computed-ratio denominators kept explicit.
Daily access
Vehicle availability by household size and computer access among younger and older people in households.
Find your community
Cities, towns and Census-designated places keep their official source names. These are native place estimates, not county figures, ZIP codes or neighborhoods.
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$1 / Tables
27 source-backed observations in CSV and JSON, definitions, original relevant source rows, raw source margins, method and a readable finding.
$5 / Charts and citations
Everything in the $1 kit, plus nine charts comparing the place, state and nation with consistent scales and citations.
$10 / Contextual report
Everything in the $5 kit, plus metric-specific reading notes, alternative interpretations, a decision worksheet and reproducible source calculations.
Evidence before an action
These are pooled point estimates, not a current neighborhood inspection, child care directory, job vacancy feed or cost quote. Publisher component margins are retained. No derived uncertainty, significance ranking, individual prediction or causal result is claimed. State and national benchmarks include the focal place.
The first cohort starts with five qualified places per state, then adds eligible places by household estimate to reach 2,500. The second cohort selects up to five remaining eligible places per state, then adds the largest remaining places to reach another 2,500. The third cohort uses the same remaining-place rule, excluding all 5,000 earlier communities. The fourth cohort applies the same rule after excluding all 7,500 earlier communities. The fifth cohort excludes all 10,000 earlier communities before applying the same remaining-place rule. No community appears in more than one cohort. It is a coverage rule, not a best-place ranking. Smaller places and unlisted communities are not less important.
Government data remains free. The paid layers save preparation time and add context. Read the first-cohort source and selection method and second-cohort method and third-cohort method and fourth-cohort method and fifth-cohort method, machine-readable catalog and agent checkout instructions. Still looking? Browse statewide county comparisons or compare the original city and ZIP-area pairs.