About this tool
This map compares job growth with new home construction for census tracts. It helps show whether neighborhoods that are adding jobs are also adding homes, which bears on questions about housing shortages and where people and jobs are moving.
- Shows
- The relationship between increases in jobs and new home construction in each census tract.
- Places
- Census tracts
Questions it answers
- Which neighborhoods are adding lots of jobs but few new homes?
- Are areas with strong job growth also building more housing?
- Where is new home construction happening without much job growth?
- Does my area show signs of a housing shortage relative to job growth?
- How does job and housing growth differ from one census tract to the next?