Data on Your Social Issue
To better understand your social issue in a particular place, it would be helpful to have local data for the area.
- State & County (& City) QuickFactsQuick tables on population, age/race, income, housing, income/poverty, disability and health insurance for towns with at least 5,000 people. From the Census Bureau.
When the Census Bureau contacts everyone for the decennial census, or when they sample in between decennial censuses, they are tracking where the person resides at that moment. So Cheney data will reflect students living on campus and in town, vs their hometown. But the 2020 Census data will be an outlier, since it was where you were living on April 1st, and a large number of students living on campus or in Cheney went home after winter quarter! - Washington State Office of Financial Management County & City DataPortal to data for each county in Washington State, including demographics, economics, and human services.
- SAGE Data This link opens in a new windowFormerly called Sage Stats. Collection of data measures spanning all U.S. states, counties, cities, metropolitan areas, and zip codes. Data goes back more than 20 years. Covers the economy, education, crime, government finance, health, population, religion, social welfare, and transportation.
Focused on Spokane?
- Spokane TrendsPortal to data for Spokane County. A joint project of: City of Spokane, Community Building Foundation, Eastern Washington University, Greater Spokane Inc., Spokane Regional Health District, and Spokane United Way.