Community Economic Development HotReport

For the first time, the newly released Community Economic Development (CED) HotReport provides community and business leaders speedy access to information tailored to economic development decision-making. The CED HotReport is a free, easy to use portal to instantly obtain detailed information for local and regional areas on a wide variety of topics from a multitude of sources.

This HotReport gives communities a multi-faceted view of conditions using charts, maps, tables and dynamic text. Topics include the economy, transportation, housing, schools, and much more. The top industries and occupations as well as wages for an area workforce can be retrieved in a click or two.

To help communities and businesses plan for economic expansions and contractions using the best available information, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA), the Economic Development Administration (EDA), the Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA) and the U.S. Census Bureau collaboratively designed the CED HotReport.

In the tradition of integrating disparate data to create new and useful products begun by the Census Bureau�s Data Integration Division, the CED HotReport searches a vast online network of public databases and knits together a series of interactive web pages that incorporate calculations, maps, charts, text and tables on demand. The data are extracted each time from the source without the user having to download or store it.

Information comes from a variety of sources including the Department of Labor�s Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages and State Occupational Projections; the Department of Education�s Common Core of Data and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System; and from the Census Bureau�s Local Employment Dynamics (LED), Census 2000, American Community Survey, Population Estimates, and County Business Patterns. Data are maintained and updated by the collecting agency. For a complete list of measures and sources, see CED_Measures [PDF; File Size: 72KB].

System requirements:

• A computer with at least 256MB RAM, a high performance graphics card, and a monitor with at least 1024 x 768 resolution;
• Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher ONLY for printing capability;
• Download access speed of at least 500Kb/s;
• Pop-up blockers OFF.

Comments and problems should be sent to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.