American FactFinder is the Census Bureau's online, self-service tool designed to search a variety of population, economic, geographic and housing information.
A one-stop federal government portal for searching all kinds of data and datasets. Data.gov is managed and hosted by the U.S. General Services Administration, Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies. Data.gov is primarily a federal open government data site. However, state, local, and tribal governments are also allowed to syndicate metadata describing their open data resources on Data.gov for greater discoverability
"BEA's national economic program provides a quantitative view of US domestic production, consumption, and investment, of exports and imports, and of national and domestic income and saving. It features the estimates of GDP, which is one of the most closely watched of all economic statistics. Each month, BEA releases updated estimates of GDP for the previous quarter and new estimates of personal income and outlays for the previous month. Estimates of the Nation's stock of fixed assets and consumer durable goods are prepared and published annually." Also provides regional, industry, and international accounts data.
Provides updated data on inflation and prices, producer prices, consumer prices, employment and unemployment, pay and benefits, productivity, workplace injuries, etc.
From the 2007-2011 ACS. Languages mapped include Spanish, French, French Creole, Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Persian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and Arabic. One dot represents approximately 50 people.
A terrific state census center website that makes the main federal socioeconomic data a lot easier to use. This link is to their American Community Survey profiles, which can be broken down by geography to every level above census block group and block (depending on the period of estimate), including the equivalent of zip code (ZCTA) and school district. The only drawback: using the interface, you can only select four geographies at a time to profile. The website also points out how to use interfaces such as Dexter to download profiles and other data on more geographies more quickly.
Tracks new, pending, active, and recently complete development projects throughout Metro approved by the Metro Planning Department. Useful for tracking neighborhood change.
From The Tennessean, precinct-by-precinct vote totals for candidates in the September 2015 mayoral runoff race between Megan Barry and David Fox. From the newspaper page link, click on the mobile map at bottom of article to get the map without the extraneous ads and other material.
"Provides an accessible visualization of geographic distribution, population density, and racial diversity of the American people in every neighborhood in the entire country. The map displays 308,745,538 dots, one for each person residing in the United States at the location they were counted during the 2010 Census. Each dot is color-coded by the individual's race and ethnicity. The map is presented in both black and white and full color versions. In the color version, each dot is color-coded by race." All data is from the 2010 Summary File 1 dataset.
Includes comparisons for schools in districts throughout the state. Among statistics included are demographics of each district and school; attendance and graduation rates and numbers by race and ethnicity; suspensions and expulsions by race and ethnicity; and test score tracking.
ACT data by district; aggregate accountability profiles; base accountability profiles; achievement files; attendance and graduation files; TCAP and Advanced Placement figures; educator survey results. Most data are for the past 3-5 years.
Health Statistics and Indicators
Tennessee Health regions map is shown above.
Here is a selected list of the resources available to you for researching health statistics and other information for the state of Tennessee, its counties, and Metro Nashville.
This University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute site asks the question "How healthy is your community?" and allows you to compare every county in the United States on indicators such as health outcomes, health behaviors (smoking, obesity, etc.), clinical care, socioeconomic indicators, and physical environment (pollution, housing problems, etc.).
Allows you to select and compare socioeconomic and some health indicators for TN as compared with other states and Davidson County as compared with other counties in the state and the nation. Some indicators are available to compare down to the census tract level, including poverty, income, and percent of income spent on rent (housing).
"The Community Health Profile (CHP) report uses quantitative indicators to describe the overall health of the Nashville community." Includes 129 health indicators divided into three categories. Some of the indicators: income, poverty, homelessness; indicators of mortality, cancer, and chronic disease; access to health care, water safety, and food security.
Notifiable STD reports for 1996-2005 and STD monthly reports for January 2012-September 2014, as well as a 2009-2010 annual reports and a 2014 Ryan White Act transitional grant area needs assessment.
"The Chronic Disease Health Profile is a comprehensive set of data profiles on select chronic disease indicators for each of Tennessee’s 95 counties and 14 regions. The profiles include quick facts on demographics and select health indicators, followed by data on prevalence, mortality, hospitalizations and incidence of major chronic diseases and their risk factors. Data are presented by time trend, and by race, gender and age groups, and also include county and regional rankings for most indicators."
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