Data Catalog

Dataset: Business and Residential Vacancy Rates

Description

The Business and Residential Vacancy Rates dataset tracks neighborhood change by providing the number of business and residential units that have been vacant in the previous quarter. A business or residential unit is designated as vacant if mail has not been collected for the past three months.

Collection Methodology

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) receives quarterly aggregate data from the United States Postal Service (USPS) on addresses identified by the USPS as having been "vacant" or "No-Stat" in the previous quarter. These data represent the universe of all addresses in the United States and are updated every three months.

No-Stat addresses include Rural Route addresses vacant for 90 days or longer, addresses for businesses or homes under construction and not yet occupied and addresses in urban areas identified by a carrier as not likely to be active for some time. The total vacant, total percent vacant, the total No-Stat and total percent No-Stat include the sum of all three categories: business, residential and other. However, "other" vacant or no-stat counts or percents are not included in the dataset.

Insufficient Data Areas with less than five addresses were not calculated and are noted as having insufficient data. HUD and the USPS offer data divided into three categories: business, residential and other.

For more information please consult the HUD Office of Policy Development and Research.

General Business Terms

This dataset is available for use as part of the core Mapfluence offer.

Attribution Policy

Dataset provided by Policy Map; developers must include attribution link and text as follows: Map data © 2010 Urban Mapping Inc and/or other parties when developing applications.

Attribution Text

© 2010 Policy Map

Time Period

2008-Current

Geographic Scope

United States

Lowest Geography

Census Tract

Attribute Tables

2008 Quarterly Business and Residential Vacancy Rates (bus_res_vacancy.tract_data)

Quarterly vacancy data for 2008. Attributes include count, percent and percent change for the number of vacant and no-stat business and residential units as reported by USPS. Data is available at the census tract level.

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