Metropolitan Policy Program

Metropolitan Policy Program: Interactive Features

The Metropolitan Policy Program offers a number of features that allow users to interactively display and map data related to the program's signature research projects on the nation's largest metropolitan areas

State of Metropolitan America  The State of Metropolitan America interactive tool allows users to display, map, and download U.S. Census Bureau data for U.S. states, the 100 largest metropolitan areas, and their cities and suburbs on over 300 demographic, social, and economic indicators.
 Metro Monitor The MetroMonitor interactive maps chart quarterly indicators of economic recession and recovery in the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas, including employment, unemployment, output, housing prices, foreclosures, and earnings.
 Global Monitor The interactive feature from the 2011 edition of the Global MetroMonitor allows users to explore the report’s major trends. Visualize the economic performance of 200 global metropolitan areas across three different time periods. Click on any metro area for a deeper dive into its data—see the income and employment trends that determined its performance rankings and examine the industries that make its regional economy tick.
 Clean Economy The Sizing the Clean Economy indicator map, based on the Brookings-Batelle Clean Economy Database, displays the size, growth, and character of the “clean” or green economy in U.S. states and the 100 largest metropolitan areas, through detailed data on establishments and workers engaged in producing goods and services that benefit the environment.
Manufacturing Trends The Locating American Manufacturing interactive feature provides access to a rich data set that describes how manufacturing jobs are distributed across all 366 U.S. metropolitan areas. It provides access to basic measures, such as total manufacturing jobs, but also provides rich detail about manufacturing industry specializations, manufacturing wages, plant sizes, and job changes.
Exports The Export Nation interactive tool allows users to explore export trends in the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas. The tool includes data on the value of all exports produced (including both goods and services), the number of jobs supported by exports, growth trends, and exports by industry.
 Transit Access Transit Access is an interactive mapping application that presents metropolitan and neighborhood-level information on where transit is available and how well it connects workers to jobs in the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas.
 Earned Income Tax Credit EITC Interactive provides users with access to data on federal individual income tax filers from the IRS, particularly filers receiving the Earned Income and Child Tax Credits, summarized to ZIP codes, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, states, state legislative districts, and congressional districts. Users can create data reports and map the findings.