Research Guides: Politics in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area: Numbers & Shapes: Maps, Demographics, Statistics

Numbers & Shapes

PolicyMap
Policy Map is a web-based Geographic Information System that provides a simple mechanism for visualizing data. Available data includes demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, school performance scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city crime rates.
data.census.gov
data.census.gov provides data from the U.S. Census Bureau including the 2018 American Community Survey, 2017 Economic Census, 2020 Census and more.
SimplyAnalytics (formerly SimplyMap)
Simply Analytics is a web-based mapping application that permits users to create thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing variables. Maps can be exported as high-resolution images; data can be selected, sorted, and compared to build custom reports that can be exported to a spreadsheet.

Use NBase NeighborhoodBase - Neighborhood Reports to create maps of neighborhoods or councilmanic districts with demographic statistics of those areas. This is part of the Philadelphia Neighborhood Information System
Class-Divided Cities: Philadelphia Edition 2013 Ninth city profiled in The Atlantic Cities' series on class divide in the country's largest metro areas.
The Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project from Temple strives to bring together statisticals sources about the city
Encyclopedia of Philadelphia connects the past and the present
Philadelphia City Council Agendas, meeting minutes, and council member information
Pennsylvania General Assembly Legislator and session information from the
Election returns from the Pennsylvania Department of State (for state elections)
Committee of Seventy (for local elections)

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