StatsAmerica

StatsAmerica provides actionable data for economic developers to use in site requests, development metrics, grant writing and strategic planning.

Key Tools

• CEDS Library: The CEDS (Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy) Resource Library was designed to house CEDS in one place with sufficient metadata for searching based on 50 different variables.
• Measuring Distress- County Tool: A fast simple way to calculate whether a county, region or neighborhood may meet grant thresholds for unemployment and income.
• The Regionizer: This tool allows users to build customized regional data profiles based on the counties you choose. Data profiles include demographic, housing, commuting, occupation clusters, and industry clusters metrics.
• Innovation Intelligence: The Innovation Intelligence Index (II3) helps users explore regional characteristics related to innovation and entrepreneurship to help advance economic development strategies.
• Analysis Platform for Risk, Resilience and Expenditure in Disasters (APRED): APRED is a map-based tool for exploring the disaster resilience and vulnerability profiles of counties across the United States.

Contact

For questions, comments, or concerns on the tools, please reach out to the Indiana Business Research Center at [email protected].