Easy to access maps and tables from 1790-2010 census, plus American Community Survey through 2015. Downloadable in Excel, CSV, SPSS, SAS, and Stata file formats.
The US Census Bureau's primary delivery platform - a free data site - for the American Community Survey, the most recent Decennial Census, and other Census Bureau data releases.
Crime incidents from the Philadelphia Police Department. Part I crimes include violent offenses such as aggravated assault, rape, arson, among others. Part II crimes include simple assault, prostitution, gambling, fraud, and other non-violent offenses.
"The Homelessness Analytics Initiative (HAI)—a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)—is intended to provide users with access to national, state, and local information about homelessness among the general population, homelessness among Veterans, risk and protective factors for homelessness, services and resources."
This database is the successor to ICUD Online, an online collection of fulltext US municipal and county government documents gathered from local government organizations and other sources. It is not comprehensive; its coverage generally starts ~2000.
The print ICUD indexes US municipal and county government documents, 1960s-2000. Assembled through contributions from municipal public libraries, it is wonderful and rich resource for all topics municipal. The microfiche set provides page images for most of ICUD's coverage. To use ICUD and the fiche, work with ICUD in Van Pelt Reference or Fine Arts. Record the ID numbers for specific documents, and use the Franklin Catalog fiche record's "Scan & Deliver" service for the document, including its ID number - one request per document.
83 neighborhood planning surveys prepared and published by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission between 1946 and 1990. These reports contain descriptions of current conditions of housing stock; population trends; property turnover; public transportation; community activity. Recommendations are made for future action.
Maps for presentation purposes can contribute to your research project, even without GIS skills. See http://guides.library.upenn.edu/mapping for an overview of mapping resources.
Easy to access maps and tables from 1790-2010 census, plus American Community Survey through 2015. Downloadable in Excel, CSV, SPSS, SAS, and Stata file formats.
