Business Resources Available to the Public

The American Fact Finder can be used to find historical, current, and projected demographic data on the local and national levels from the decennial census and the American Community Survey.

This resource can provide industry specific data such as concentration ratios, total sales by area, and the materials consumed by the industry using NAICS codes.

The Population estimates program releases the official estimates of the populations of the nation, the states, and municipalities throughout the year.

This program estimates the number of children living in poverty per school district. It also estimates the median household income and the number of people living in poverty at the state and county levels.

USA counties provides a wide array of information about everything from banking, crime, employment, education, agriculture, elections, business patterns, and more. This information is aggregated from the census as well as other government agencies such as the F.B.I.

This contains more local information than USA Counties but is not as current and is contained to cities with a population of 25,000 or greater.

This is also not as current as some of the other items, but it contains over 1,500 data items about states, counties, and metropolitan areas.

These tables contain monthly and quarterly profiles on states and metropolitan areas as well data about the labor force and historical data.

This program produces monthly data about unemployment and employment. The data can be broken down into state, county, and metropolitan levels and occasionally down to city level.

This resource provides annual data on the labor force for states and substate areas.

This is a breakdown of consumer buying habits collected by the U.S. Census for the B.L.S. The data can be broken down into national, regional, state, and metropolitan area data tables.

This resource provides estimates for the wages of hundreds of professions in tables broken down into national, regional, state, and metropolitan areas.

The Federal Reserve's Beige Book is published eight times per year, and this resource summarizes the current economic conditions of the Federal Reserve Districts by sector in HTML and PDF formats.

Agriculture is a major portion of the economy is select areas, and the agricultural census provides comprehensive agricultural data on the state and county level.

The DOE's National Center for Educational Statistics provides customized or preformatted data on schools and school districts.

The Social Security Administration provides program statistics and data by geographic region that can be useful for researching older populations.

The FDIC RECON provides data in a number of different formats, such as charts and tables, on topics ranging from real estate to industry activity that can be broken down into state, county, and metropolitan area levels.

The HUD provides excellent information about regional housing markets and community development issues.