2017 PRA Testing

Census Business Builder:
Regional Analyst Edition
FACTSHEET
The Census Business Builder: Regional Analyst Edition allows
organizations to easily navigate and use key demographic and economic
data to help guide their research into their region. These key data include
the most recent and/or relevant data that the Census Bureau provides
that are useful to a variety of organizations.
Key Features:
• Easy-to-use menus to select the types of business and business
locations in your region.

• An interactive map that allows selection of the area to explore,

Users:
The primary users of the tool
are organization executives
and staff who are trying to
understand the demographics
and economics of their region.
Other users may include
business school students,
academic institutions, and state
and local governments.

including comparisons to neighboring areas.

• Dynamically generated, downloadable and printable county-level

reports (including trend charts) that can be easily incorporated into
your summaries.

Navigation:
Users are guided to the information through a simple three-step process:

1) BUILD YOUR REGION - What are the one or more county components of

your region?
2) RESEARCH YOUR REGION - Use the data to investigate the characteristics
of the populations and businesses in your region.

3) CREATE A REPORT - View and download a Profile Report of your region.

Available Programs and Data Variables:
Version 1.0 of the tool provides information for over 50 statistics
from two sources four Census data programs.
Please see reverse for a detailed list of the data products available in the tool.

To access the tool plase visit: http://census.gov/data/data-tools/cbb.html

Updates:
Quarterly updates are planned;
these will include additional
content and functionality.
User accounts:
Accounts are not necessary

Census Bureau
2014 American Community Survey five-year statiscics
• Demographic Characteristics: Including total population; population 18
65 and over.
and over and
• Economic Characteristics: Including median household income; percent
of population with a high school diploma and over; percent of
population with a bachelor’s degree and over; percent in poverty;
employment rate; population 16 and over in labor force.
• Housing Characteristics: Including the number of owner-occupied, renter
occupied, and single family housing units; homeownership rate; gross
vacancy rate; median value, monthly costs and gross rent.
2013 County Business Patterns
• Number of employer establishments; employment; annual payroll.
2013 Nonemployer Statistics
• Number of nonemployer establishments; total revenue.
2012 Economic Census
• Number of employer establishments; employment; annual payroll; sales,
shipments, receipts, revenue, work done.

Geographic Areas Covered:
• Demographic and consumer
spending data are shown at the
city/town/place, neighborhood
(census tract) levels.
• Economic and Spending data are
shown at the County, city/town,
zip code and neighborhood
levels.

Key Ratios
• Including employment per business;
payroll per employee; population per business.

2015 Consumer Spending Data

Sectors:
Version 1.0 of the tool provides
information for the 18 sectors
covered by Census Bureau
economic programs including:

Esri

care; household services, housing, personal care, transportation, and travel.
All data are accessed via Census Bureau and Esri data application program
interfaces (APIs).
All geographic information are provided via the Census Bureau’s TIGERWeb
Service.

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Services

• Construction
• Health Care
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• Professional
T
Services
• Retail

Food