Changelog

NEW LAYER: Builder Development

Major and Minor Residential Builders in the USA. Major Builders symbolized with saturated colors, minor builders symbolized with pastels. Includes large parcels owned by builders or their holding companies as well as completed subdivisions symbolized by the builder.

NEW LAYER: Subdivisions

Builder subdivisions in the USA.

NEW LAYER: Business Hotspots

This layer uses Point of Interest data on recent Business Opening and Closing Dates to identify areas of overall new business growth or decline. In a given area, if recent business openings outpace recent business closures in a statistically significant fashion, the points will be symbolized in red. If business closures significantly outpace openings, they will be symbolized in blue. An area where closures and openings are relatively balanced or stable, the points will be symbolized in gray. Locations that recently closed but are in an area with many openings may be symbolized in red, and vice versa.

This layer makes it easy to visually identify areas of a metro that are experiencing new growth in terms of businesses. Established downtown cores tend to be shown in gray or blue, while new shopping areas accompanying housing growth tend are in red.

Each point represents a business that has either closed down or opened within the past two years, or in some cases, both. These points are a subset of the Points of Interest layer.

UPDATED: Building Permits by Population

Updated to include estimates from 2022 data.

UPDATED: EPA Facilities

All EPA permits, reports, and information stored in the EPA Facility Registry Service (FRS). EPA Facilities dataset updated to the latest available data.

UPDATED: Land Cover Development Change Layer

Dataset updated to include 2023 changes to the landscape.

NEW LAYER: Alternate Fuel Corridors

FHWA designates two EV corridor categories:

1. EV Corridor Ready – A sufficient number of EV charging stations currently exist (minimum 50-mile intervals)
2. EV Corridor Pending – An insufficient number of EV charging stations currently exist

NEW LAYER: Charging Stations

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) created a joint interim guidance DOE and DOT DAC map for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program. This dataset is adjusted from the EV Charging Station Infrastructure map to include all charging stations in America, Tesla and non-Tesla, that are publicly accessible.

UPDATED: Difficult Development Areas (HUD)

Updated to 2024 (latest release).

UPDATED: Electric Service Territories

New release.

UPDATED: MSA Nonfarm Job Growth

Updated through December, 2023 (latest data)

UPDATED: MSA Unemployment

Updated through December, 2023 (latest data)

UPDATED: Points of Interest

New monthly release with updated point locations and attributes.

UPDATED: Qualified Census Tracts (HUD)

Updated to 2024 (latest release).

UPDATED: Substations

New release. Highlights include additional substations in TN Valley.

UPDATED: Transmission Lines

New release. Highlights include distribution lines primarily in CO, ME, and VT.

UPDATED: ACS Age Breakdown

Updated from 2021 to 2022 release data.

UPDATED: ACS Daytime Population

Updated from 2021 to 2022 release data.

UPDATED: ACS Migration

Updated from 2021 to 2022 release data.

UPDATED: HUBZone Qualified Counties

Updated to the latest July 2023 release. SBA will not update qualified counties again until July 2028.

UPDATED: HUBZone Qualified Tracts

Updated to the latest July 2023 release. SBA will not update qualified tracts again until July 2028.