America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers
Helping You Decide Where to Buy a Home
Are you a new parent ready to buy your first home? Or a retiree seeking to downsize and purchase a place in a quiet community out of state?
Potential homebuyers may have some nonnegotiable criteria in mind like well-funded schools and access to quality health care, public transportation, libraries and shops.
How do they decide where to even start looking?
The U.S. Census Bureau’s suite of data and analytical tools can help.
Take its Public Sector statistics, for example, which provide comprehensive data on the finances, employment and structure of governments, including annual revenue, expenditures, debt and assets. They detail the scale of public employment, payrolls, tax collections, and specialized data on public pension systems and school districts.
When you’re in the market for a neighborhood with well-funded schools, you can use these stats to find out local revenue (versus state and federal funding) per pupil, indicating a community’s capacity to support its schools.
Continue reading to learn more about Census Bureau data tools and resources that help homebuyers find the best locations for their needs.
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