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The above map, based on table B19080: “Household income quintile upper limits”  from the 2013 American Community Survey, displays income amounts which would put a household among the wealthiest 5% in their state. The stacked bars adjacent to the map display household income distribution within a state by quintiles, providing an overview of household income distribution.

For Connecticut, New Jersey, and District of Columbia, table B19080 from the 2013 ACS reports that the top 5% of households by income have lower income limits of “250,000+”, while more precise estimates are provided for all other states. Connecticut reached this apparent “250,000+” reporting ceiling in the 2011 American Community Survey report. The top 5% of households in District of Columbia surpassed this threshold several years earlier. Interestingly, in 2009 the American Community Survey reported that the lower limit of the top 5% of households in D.C. was $279,845; in this year’s report the figure is reported simply as being “$250,000+”, obscuring the true estimate. Table B19083 from the 2013 ACS indicates that the District of Columbia has a greater level of income inequality than any state; New York and Connecticut have the highest Gini index among states.

The American Community Survey 2009-13 ACS 5-Year dataset, released today by the U.S. Census Bureau, provides new economic and demographic data for smaller geographic areas including all 169 Connecticut towns. The visualization below provides a snapshot of just a few measures from one report within this dataset, “DP03 – Selected Economic Characteristics” – just one of the more than 2,000 tables of new data for Connecticut towns, Congressional districts, school districts, Census Tracts, and other areas. To browse for more detailed economic data on any town, follow the link that appears when you hover over any map in the visualization – or start browsing American FactFinder with some of the links below:

• DP02 – SELECTED SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS
• DP03 – SELECTED ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS
• DP04 – SELECTED HOUSING CHARACTERISTICS

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The Connecticut State Data Center has been working on visualizations that highlight some of the data available on the Connecticut Open Data Portal.

The first is a look at home sales (above $2,000) in the State of Connecticut during the year 2011. The data covers 140 of the 169 towns in the State. For each individual sale, the data includes assessed home price, actual sale price, geographic coordinates, and the unique sale serial number. You can see the original data here.

In addition to the more statistical views on the first page of the visualization, the second page features the data on GoogleMaps. This allows for changing the basemap to satellite imagery and even using Google Street View to try and get a look at specific houses.

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The Connecticut State Data Center has created a Census Data Browser for the Regional Councils of Governments in Connecticut, allowing users to view a range of demographic, economic, and housing data for any of the nine RCOG planning regions. While the data dashboard draws mainly on Census Bureau data – decennial census, American Community Survey, and building permit data downloaded from Census.gov – the tool also includes other some other sources such as surface permeability and grand list data. There are many deep links within the tool to the Census Bureau’s American FactFinder data engine, allowing users to explore more detailed data for their town or RCOG region.

This is very much a work in progress, and your suggestions for features and inclusion of additional data sources would be appreciated!

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This data visualization shows the specific origins of people within Hispanic & Latino populations in Connecticut Census tracts, based on published 2010 Census data. This project is modeled on a visualization created by the Census Bureau which shows the distribution of persons of specific Hispanic/Latino origins across U.S. counties; the map below instead can display what percentage of the Hispanic population in a particular Census tract is of Puerto Rican, or Mexican, origins, for example. The data are taken from 2010 Census table PCT11 for Census Tracts (see link in the tooltip when hovering over the map to see original data for any Census Tract in American FactFinder), and are originally derived from part 8 of the 2010 Census questionnaire.

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This dashboard displays various measures from the National Center for Education Statistics’ Academic Libraries Survey 2012 dataset. The various views allow the user to filter by institutional Carnegie class to compare similar institutions – from 2-year Associate’s colleges to research universities. A filter for sector – public vs. private – allows apples-to-apples comparisons among libraries for things like collections expenditures and staffing. The ‘Compare expenditures of academic libraries’ and ‘Compare staffing of academic libraries’ tabs let you select specific institutions to compare, for measures including:

• expenditures for print and electronic journal subscriptions in 2012
• expenditures for print materials
• numbers and total salaries/wages of librarians, other staff, and student assistants

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