Various cities and metro areas are in a natural and understandable competition with each other. They compete for high-value companies, high-value talent, and for national prestige. However, some of us wonder how metropolitan areas compete on the stage of equitable access to basic needs. Benchmark Your Metro allows patrons to place their Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in the center of the data universe, find which MSAs are its true peers based on a set criteria, and then compare how their MSA stacks up to its peers. With this data in hand, patrons can spark focused dialogues on where their metro currently stands and the way forward.
Benchmark Your Metro: Housing Stability
The patron’s Focus MSA is benchmarked with its Top-5 Peer MSAs on the basis of housing stability characteristics. Learn how your MSA stacks up with its peers on homeownership, rental affordability, and cost-burden measures.
Patron Options:
– Data only
– Data & Reporting
Benchmark Your Metro: Socioeconomic Dynamics
The patron’s Focus MSA is benchmarked with its Top-5 Peer MSAs on the basis of core socioeconomic characteristics. Find out how your MSA stacks up with its peers on core homeownership characteristics, rental affordability, and social capital measures.
Patron Options:
– Data only
– Data & Reporting
Benchmark Your Metro: Ethnoracial Dynamics
The patron’s Focus MSA is benchmarked with its Top-5 Peer MSAs on the basis of ethnoracial characteristics and how they interweave with socioeconomic dynamics. Learn how your MSA stacks up with its peers on ethnoracial equity measures such as scale the scale of homeownership, rental affordability, and cost-burdened household percentages.
Patron Options:
– Data only
– Data & Reporting
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