The data atlas
Every fact has
a boundary.
Choose a desk by the decision you are making. Each one preserves the publisher’s geography, population, units, uncertainty, and suppression rules.
People + housing
876 placesPopulation, Black-alone population, household income, housing tenure, median rent, and median home value.
- Grain
- Census place
- Coverage
- 14 estimate/MOE fields
Work + pay
22 occupationsNational employment estimates, mean annual wages, median hourly wages, and transparent annualized calculations.
- Grain
- Detailed SOC occupation
- Coverage
- 5 source/presentation fields
Mortgage activity
11 geographiesOriginations, home-purchase originations, denials, and Black applicant/borrower filtered records.
- Grain
- Nation or MSA/MD
- Coverage
- 6 filter-defined metrics
Employer businesses
21 categoriesBlack-owned employer firms, receipts, exports, employment, payroll, RSEs, and suppression flags.
- Grain
- National size category
- Coverage
- 5 measures + RSE
HBCU institutions
102 institutionsActive HBCU directory records joined to 12-month enrollment and completions by UNITID.
- Grain
- IPEDS institution
- Coverage
- Directory + enrollment + awards
Source registry
8 entriesFirst-party links, vintages, retrieval dates, variables, inclusion rules, and honest coverage limitations.
- Grain
- Dataset release
- Coverage
- Provenance + methodology
The release contract
What ships is traceable.
What is not ready does not ship.
- 01
First-party only. Federal source files and APIs—not scraped directory claims.
- 02
No cross-grain shortcuts. A place, an MSA/MD, a national estimate, and an institution stay distinct.
- 03
No synthetic gap fill. Missing and suppressed facts remain marked.
- 04
No implied rank. Display order is not a recommendation or score.