The SCF is a triennial cross-sectional survey of U.S. families. The survey data include information on families’ balance sheets, pensions, income, and demographic characteristics. Information is also included from related surveys of pension providers and the earlier such surveys conducted by the Federal Reserve Board.

SIPP is a nationally representative longitudinal survey that provides comprehensive information on the dynamics of income, employment, household composition, and government program participation.

Household debt is calculated from FRBNY/Equifax credit panel and household income is reported from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households collects information on bank account ownership; use of prepaid cards and nonbank online payment services; use of nonbank money orders, check cashing, and money transfer services; and use of bank and nonbank credit.

The ACS is the flagship product of the US Census and the premier resource for detailed population and housing data within the United States nationally and down to a hyper-local level. Unemployment rate figures are used in the Business Investment Need Index.

The ABS Program combines data results from survey respondents and administrative records to produce data on business ownership. The survey is collected from employer businesses and the nonemployer data are compiled from administrative records.

The SBA releases FOIA data for 7(a) loans,the SBA’s most popular program for financial assistance to businesses

The SBA releases FOIA data 504 loans, which focus on promoting business growth and job creation.

The SBA releases administrative data on the federal paycheck protection program, including: Loan characteristics (e.g. amount); Business characteristics (e.g. business type); Borrower characteristics (e.g. address).

The NCES provides a compilation of government, private data sources, and surveys on education statistics, including: School and college characteristics (e.g. number of enrollments); Educational attainment (e.g. graduation rate); Finances (e.g. federal funds).

Estimated Broadband Usage by combining data from several Microsoft products

The CPS is a monthly survey of households conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that is the primary source for U.S. labor force statistics, including: Employment (e.g. work status, industry); Demographic characteristics (e.g. age); Supplemental topics (e.g. child support, health insurance coverage, COVID-19).

The Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims dataset from the U.S. Department of Labor provides weekly unemployment insurance claims, including the number of initial claims and continued weeks of claimed unemployment benefits

The Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment presents annual data on the employed and unemployed for states and census regions and divisions. The estimates include demographic characteristics, occupation, industry, class of worker, hours of work, duration of unemployment, and reason for unemployment. The source of the data is the Current Population Survey.

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The SBA releases FOIA data 504 loans, which focus on promoting business growth and job creation.

The Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program from the Bureau of Labor Statistics produces monthly and annual employment, unemployment, and labor force data for Census regions and divisions, States, counties, metropolitan areas, and many cities, by place of residence

The Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) program is part of the Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Census Bureau. The LEHD program produces cost effective, public-use information combining federal, state and Census Bureau data on employers and employees under the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership. State and local authorities increasingly need detailed local information about their economies to make informed decisions

The BFS are a standard data product of the U.S. Census Bureau developed in research collaboration with economists affiliated with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, University of Maryland, and University of Notre Dame. The BFS provides timely and high frequency information on new business applications and formations in the United States.

The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program publishes a quarterly count of employment and wages reported by employers covering more than 95 percent of U.S. jobs, available at the county, MSA, state and national levels by industry.

Since 2013, the Federal Reserve Board has conducted the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED), which measures the economic well-being of U.S. households and identifies potential risks to their finance

Since 2013, the Federal Reserve Board has conducted the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED), which measures the economic well-being of U.S. households and identifies potential risks to their finance

The National Risk Index published by FEMA shows which communities are most at risk to natural hazards. It includes data about the expected annual losses to individual natural hazards, social vulnerability and community resilience.

This dataset, published by the FDIC, lists FDIC-insured banks and branches.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau releases data based on the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), which requires many financial institutions to maintain, report, and publicly disclose loan-level information about mortgages.

The HVS dataset is a dataset that is published by the US Census on a quarterly basis and provides information on rental and homeowner vacancy rates.

The Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) employs U.S. Census Bureau variables to help users identify communities that may need support in preparing for hazards or recovering from disasters.

This is the US Coronavirus data repository from The New York Times . This data includes COVID-19 cases and deaths reported by state and county. The New York Times compiled this data based on reports from state and local health agencies.

Yelp data are ingested via the platform's API. Businesses self identify as being Black owned by adding the Black-owned Business attribute to their Yelp business page.

PurpleAir is a vendor of low-cost air quality sensors designed to sample air for pollution. The Black Wealth Data Center uses PurpleAir data by taking ALT cf=3 sensor data for PM2.5 particle pollution and applying the air quality index calculation formula provided by the Environmental Protection Agency.

EPA AirNow data show air quality readings recorded at various intervals of time. Air quality index is a calculation based on the concentration of PM2.5 particles in the sampled air.

The Trust for Public Land makes location, geography and access information available for roughly 145,000 U.S. parks.

The National Center for Education Statistics collects information including location details on public elementary and secondary schools, including charter schools, as part of its Common Core of Data dataset.

The FDIC maintains a list and tracks the insured MDIs it supervises, i.e., state-chartered institutions that are not members of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve), as well as MDIs that are supervised by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Reserve. The FDIC takes this broad approach given its role in considering applications for deposit insurance and in resolving institutions in the event an MDI were to fail, regardless of the institution’s charter. The FDIC’s published list of FDIC-insured minority depository institutions does not include women-owned or women-managed institutions because they are not included in the statutory definition.

The Department of Energy publishes energy burden data for low-income households (Defined as (0-80%) of Area Median Income).

The Geospatial Management Office, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, collects information including location details on hospitals as part of its Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data dataset.

The Geospatial Management Office, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, collects information including location details on hospitals as part of its Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data dataset.

The Treasury Department designated nearly 9,000 Census tracts as communities in economic distress. Entities that made economic investments in these Opportunity Zones were entitled to certain tax benefits in the period shortly after the designation. Opportunity Zone designations are integrated into the Business Investment Need Index.

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, located at the University of Michigan, maintains historical 'redlining' scores for U.S. geographies based on maps from the now-defunct Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, which quantified mortgage investment risk across the U.S. Redlining refers to the systemic denial of credit to prospective home buyers based on racial and ethnic factors. 2020 U.S. Census tracts are scored by determining the area contained within a historical HOLC boundary and assigning weighted values based on the grade (1 for “A” grade, 2 for “B” grade, 3 for “C” grade, and 4 for “D” grade) and amount of space contained within the HOLC boundary. Redlining scores are used in the Business Investment Need Index.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created a metric to score U.S. Census block groups based on how feasible travel is within the geography without a private vehicle. Block groups are ranked by a combination of the density of intersections, proximity to public transit stops and diversity of land uses. This last measure looks at the mix of types of zoned use, including residential, industrial and commercial, and the mix of types of employment, with a higher variety of uses leading to a higher score. Walkability index scores are integrated into the Business Investment Need Index.