Community data tools
Free public tools for checking housing costs, transportation, jobs, health, environment, and hazards where you live. Start with one clear question, pull a few numbers that answer it, and compare your area with the county or state.
Every link checked November 11, 2026.
What it costs to live in your area, who is struggling with rent, and the official numbers that decide who qualifies for help.
Combined housing and transportation costs as a share of income, so you can see whether cheap rent is eaten up by long drives.
The hourly wage a full-time worker needs to afford a modest rental where you live.
How many households pay too much for housing or live in crowded or substandard homes, by income level.
Mostly downloads and query tables, best for grant writers.
Open the tool →The official rent standard used for housing vouchers, by number of bedrooms.
The income cutoffs that decide who qualifies for affordable housing programs.
Eviction filings over time, with monthly tracking in the cities and states it follows.
Recent monthly data covers 43 cities and 11 states. The national map stops at 2018.
Open the tool →How easy it is to get to work and daily needs without a car, and how safe the streets are.
Transit access, how often buses and trains come, and how many jobs you can reach by transit near an address.
Covers transit agencies that publish their schedules online.
Open the tool →A walkability score for your neighborhood based on street layout, nearby destinations, and transit.
Counts and details of fatal traffic crashes, including those involving pedestrians and cyclists.
Where people work, how the local economy is doing, and whether your area qualifies for economic development programs.
Where local workers live, where residents commute to, and what kinds of jobs are in your area.
The monthly unemployment rate and size of the labor force.
How many businesses and jobs are in each industry in your county or ZIP code.
Personal income and income per person over time, to compare your county with others.
A 0 to 100 economic distress score built from jobs, income, poverty, housing vacancy, and business growth.
Whether a place counts as low-income or distressed for CDFI programs, and the Opportunity Zone tract list.
Treasury designated a new 2026 Opportunity Zone list on November 5, 2026. The 2018 list is now an archive.
Open the tool →Which internet providers and speeds are reported at your address, and how to challenge wrong information.
The FCC site blocked our automated check, so we confirmed it through a 2026 FCC notice instead.
Open the tool →Who lives in your area, how it is changing, and how opportunity differs from one neighborhood to the next.
Easy-to-read Census profiles of any place, with charts and side-by-side comparisons. The best place to start.
The full official Census tables on population, income, housing, language, and commuting.
Powerful but hard for beginners. For neighborhoods, use the 5-year estimates.
Open the tool →A map of local demographics, businesses, and disaster resilience, with wildfire and air quality overlays.
Racial and economic equity measures such as housing burden, wages, and poverty by race.
A 0 to 100 score for the opportunities children have in a neighborhood: schools, health, environment, and economics.
How children who grew up in each neighborhood fared as adults, including income and incarceration.
Based on children born in the 1980s, so it shows long-term patterns, not current conditions.
Open the tool →County maps of population, jobs, income, and county type for rural areas.
Whether an address is in an area eligible for USDA rural housing and community programs.
How healthy your community is, and the conditions behind it: poverty, food, housing, access to care, and vulnerability in a disaster.
Estimated local rates of 40 health conditions and behaviors, such as asthma, diabetes, and loneliness.
These are model estimates, not counts.
Open the tool →County health snapshots covering health outcomes and the factors behind them, plus proven strategies.
The site says it may go offline in December 2026 unless funding is extended. Download what you need now.
Open the tool →How vulnerable a community is in a disaster, based on poverty, age, disability, housing, and transportation.
A combined ranking of environmental, social, and health burdens for your census tract.
Whether an address is in a shortage area for primary care, dental, or mental health providers.
Nearby federally funded health centers that offer care on a sliding fee scale.
Maps of heart disease and stroke rates alongside risk factors, community conditions, and access to care.
Health outcomes and costs for Medicare enrollees, with breakdowns by race, age, and income.
Covers Medicare enrollees only.
Open the tool →The share of residents with risk factors that make it harder to recover from a disaster.
A disadvantage ranking for your neighborhood based on income, education, employment, and housing.
Low-income neighborhoods far from a supermarket, and access to stores that accept SNAP.
Renamed and split into two maps in July 2026.
Open the tool →County data on grocery and restaurant access, food assistance, food prices, and diet-related health.
Food insecurity rates for everyone, children, and seniors, plus the local cost of a meal.
Pollution, drinking water, flooding, heat, and natural hazard risk where you live.
Risk scores for 18 natural hazards such as flooding, heat, wildfire, and tornadoes, with social vulnerability layers.
The National Risk Index now lives inside this tool. FEMA says no data updates are planned.
Open the tool →The official flood map for your address.
Pollution burdens such as air toxics, traffic, and nearby Superfund sites, combined with demographics.
EPA removed EJScreen in February 2025. This is an unofficial copy of the last EPA data, which EPA will not update.
Open the tool →How vulnerable your census tract is to climate impacts, across health, social, economic, and environmental factors.
Inspections and violations at nearby factories and other regulated sites, and drinking water system violations.
How to find your water system's yearly water quality report.
Your utility's website or water bill is often the fastest route.
Open the tool →Whether local streams, lakes, and beaches are polluted, and your local watershed.
Current and forecast air quality, including wildfire smoke.
Past and projected temperatures, rainfall, and extreme heat days for your county.
The current drought level in your area, updated weekly.
Many states run their own health and environmental justice maps, often with more local detail than the national tools. California’s CalEnviroScreen is the best known. Pick your state to see what it offers.
Some well-known federal tools were taken down or moved. If a guide or grant form mentions one, here is where things stand.
Turning numbers into a case
Our guide on data and community research covers choosing a question, running your own counts and surveys, and presenting what you find to a council or funder.
These tools are run by the agencies and organizations listed, not by Community Compass. Data years differ from tool to tool, so check the date on any number before you rely on it.