Finding Data & Statistics: Urban Planning & Housing

This website includes a range of U.S. and international economic data (price indexes, exchange rates, interest rates, GDP, trade balances, etc.). Useful features include easy browsing for U.S. regional data (states, MSAs, counties, BEA regions, Fed districts, Census divisions) and links to Liber8, the Fed's portal to current economic indicators, research and recent reports, and GeoFRED, a data-mapping tool which displays color-coded employment data on the state, MSA, and county levels.

Part of the Federal Reserve Economic Data website, GeoFRED is a data-mapping tool which displays color-coded employment data on the state, MSA, and county levels.

This San Diego county website links to data on population characteristics, such as demographics and employment, as well as transportation and crime statistics, land use, and population and employment estimates and forecasts.

Selected population and housing estimates from 1990-1998 for San Diego County, at the city, subregional, and census tract levels.

San Diego Census data for 1950

National and metropolitan statistics for apartments, single-family homes, mobile homes, vacant homes, family composition, income, housing and neighborhood quality, housing costs, equipment, fuels, size of housing unit, and recent movers. National data are collected every other year, from a fixed sample of about 50,000 homes, plus new construction each year. The survey started in 1973, and has had the same sample since 1985, letting you see homes and households changing over the years.

Find tables detailing Housing Affordability from 2004, 2002, 1995, 1993, and 1991 surveys .

"Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation in the United States: 1980-2000" in pdf format.

From 60 years of the decennial censuses.

Provides statistics on the sales of new privately-owned single-family residential structures in the U.S. New homes sold data are only available at the national and regional levels. Data included in the press release are:
* Number of new single-family houses sold
* Number of new single-family houses for sale
* U.S. median and average sales prices of new homes sold.

HUD USER provides interested researchers with access to the original data sets generated by PD&R-sponsored data collection efforts, including the American Housing Survey, HUD median family income limits, as well as microdata from research initiatives on topics such as housing discrimination, the HUD-insured multifamily housing stock, and the public housing population.

From the Center for Responsible Lending

The "Map your Community" feature allows mapping of Community Planning and Development statistics such as low income and elderly housing, environmental factors, flood hazards, census geographies, hydrography, transportation, landmarks.

Compendium of Statistics.