and find your metro area and town, and you'll be amazed at how much statistical info is available, all free.
The other good bet, if your county or city has one, is the local Office of Economic Development. They'll have everything you could want, for that area.
You don't mention where you are but often a local university will have somebody who specializes in teaching this stuff who can help you out.
Here in Chicago I go visit this guy who runs the map department at the University of Chicago's library (nice guy, lives in a basement with no windows surrrounded by maps old and new) They have this amazing computer program which allows you to combine any of the questions asked in the last census and will map the results in color on big print-outs. You can, for example, divide number of bedrooms by number of people per household to find out which census tracts have the most people in the smallest houses.
Go to this site:
http://www.ersys.com/index.htm
and find your metro area and town, and you'll be amazed at how much statistical info is available, all free.
The other good bet, if your county or city has one, is the local Office of Economic Development. They'll have everything you could want, for that area.
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You don't mention where you are but often a local university will have somebody who specializes in teaching this stuff who can help you out.
Here in Chicago I go visit this guy who runs the map department at the University of Chicago's library (nice guy, lives in a basement with no windows surrrounded by maps old and new) They have this amazing computer program which allows you to combine any of the questions asked in the last census and will map the results in color on big print-outs. You can, for example, divide number of bedrooms by number of people per household to find out which census tracts have the most people in the smallest houses.
Great program. Guy could use some sun though.