Local Data Providers

There are many local data providers and aggregators in the Portland MSA:

Portland Maps
This tool was developed to give public access to geographic information system (GIS) data integrated with other information from all city bureaus. Query, analyze and review data visually. PortlandMaps provides a simple to use, streamlined interface for property selection and navigation.

Portland State University’s Population Research Center
The PRC provides is located in the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University. The Center’s goal is to provide ready access to census and other information on the population of Oregon and to provide timely analyses of the patterns of past, current, and projected future populations in Oregon and of the implications of such patterns for key issues facing Oregon.

Oregon Employment Department’s qualityinfo.org
Qualityinfo.org acts as a data dissemination resource that provides employment, occupation, and educational data for Oregon and its subregions.

Portland Development Commission – Demographics and Data
From the PDC site you can access recent workforce news, labor trends and statistics, economic and demographic data and recent PDC publications.

Greenlight Greater Portland
Greenlight Greater Portland is the region’s only private-sector-led economic development initiative. Greenlight’s mission is to promote the greater Portland-Vancouver MSA to bring good companies and jobs to the region and to support and grow the diverse businesses that have made their home here. They provide targeted research, marketing, and outreach for the Portland MSA.

National Thinktanks

National Neighborhood Indicators Project
The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) is a collaborative effort by the Urban Institute and local partners to further the development and use of neighborhood-level information systems in local policymaking and community building.

Lincoln Land Institute
The Lincoln Institute seeks to improve the dialogue about urban development, the built environment, and tax policy in the United States and abroad. Through research, training, conferences, demonstration projects, publications, and multimedia, the Lincoln Institute provides the highest quality, nonpartisan analysis and evaluation for today’s regulatory, planning, and policy decisions.

Urban Land Institute
ULI acts as a multidisciplinary real estate forum, facilitating the open exchange of ideas, information and experience among local, national and international industry leaders and policy makers dedicated to creating better places. The mission of the Urban Land Institute is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide.

Urban Institute
The Urban Institute gathers data, conducts research, evaluates programs, offers technical assistance overseas, and educates Americans on social and economic issues — to foster sound public policy and effective government.

Brookings Institution
An independent research and policy institute. Web site contains briefing papers, analyses, and other resources related to many current political issues.

Federal Agency Data Sources

Finally, the federal data collection agencies are the basic source for wide datasets regarding the entire nation and for regional comparisons.

U.S. Census American Factfinder
In American FactFinder you can obtain data in the form of maps, tables, and reports from a variety of Census Bureau sources.

HUDuser (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)
HUD USER provides interested researchers with access to the original electronic 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.

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
From the BEA website:  ”BEA is an agency of the Department of Commerce. Along with the Census Bureau and STAT-USA, BEA is part of the Department’s Economics and Statistics Administration.  BEA produces economic accounts statistics that enable government and business decision-makers, researchers, and the American public to follow and understand the performance of the Nation’s economy. To do this, BEA collects source data, conducts research and analysis, develops and implements estimation methodologies, and disseminates statistics to the public.”

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
From the BLS website:  ”The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. ”