Interactive maps and dashboards that put local data within reach of residents, organizers, journalists and officials. The Wage Atlas has been rebuilt; the tools marked “Rebuilding” are next, and each still works at its original address in the meantime.
The Atlas matches each worker in the Census Bureau's American Community Survey to the MIT living wage for where they live and their family type, then shows who earns enough to live on and who doesn't.
How the federal changes since January 2025 are reaching New York: jobs, the federal workforce, federal grants, assistance and contracts, nonprofits and early warning signs in every county and region, updated every week.
With support from New York State and the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo.
Eviction filings in New York's courts month by month since 2018, for counties, cities and towns, ZIP codes and legislative districts, with who has a lawyer, the back rent at stake and the shortfall of subsidized homes.
Home internet subscriptions, computers and broadband service, built up from census blocks so you can assemble towns, ZIP codes, legislative districts and library systems.
With the New York State Library, Community Technology New York and the John R. Oishei Foundation.
Where the people who work at any New York workplace live, by ZIP code, town and county, with nearby child care programs and major roads.
Turnout among likely renters and homeowners in every 2022 State Senate and Assembly district, and what the electorate would look like if renters voted at homeowners' rates.
A Cornell living wage for a single adult in each upstate county, compared with the MIT calculator and the wage needed to rent a one-bedroom home.
With the Ithaca Co-Lab and the Tompkins County Living Wage Coalition.
Census indicators for each Common Council district and planning neighborhood, with ten-year change and both the 2023 and earlier district lines.
Who earns less than $15 an hour in Buffalo: about 44% of wage earners, broken out by race, age, industry, occupation, education and housing costs.
Find licensed child care, follow the state's changing child care capacity, and read the True Cost of Child Care report for Erie County.
With support from the John R. Oishei Foundation and the WNY Women's Foundation.
The non-citizen share of the voting-age population, poverty and 2021 turnout by census tract. Companion to Vol. 2, No. 4.
Block-level clusters of high and low walkability across Buffalo's planning areas, and who lives in each by race and ethnicity.
Block-level population change from 2010 to 2020 in Erie and Niagara counties, filtered by Assembly, Senate, County Legislature and Buffalo council districts.
Buffalo's labor market mapped by planning community.
Census indicators for Rochester's City Council districts and Data Divisions, with each district ranked against the others.
Eviction filings and crime rates by ZIP code, and how closely they track each other.
A rough measure of union density for every county in the contiguous United States, in three-year averages from 2013 to 2024.
With the Cornell ILR Center for Applied Research on Work (CAROW).
Retired: the Erie County COVID-19 Mapper, the NYS Daily COVID-19 Tracker and the NYS School District COVID-19 Tracker, built in 2020 and 2021, are no longer updated.