SEMCOG Community Data by Topic

Major community profile topics are:

• People
• Economy and Jobs
• Housing
• Transportation
• Land Use

Source: Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG)
Time frame: (as of June, 2010) Data available through 2009 with projections to 2035
Available at: http://www.semcog.org/Data/bysubject.cfm

• People
• Community Profiles: People
• SEMCOG's most requested data on population trends, household types, age groups, race, ethnicity, and education levels.
• Forecasted Population by School District
• This report contains forecast population by five age groups, including school age children. The data is reported at five-year intervals from 2005 through future year 2035 at the school district level.
• Population Estimates
• Estimates of population and households for every county and community in Southeast Michigan are provided biannually (mid-year and end-of-year). Annual reports are a review of the demographic trends in Southeast Michigan with detailed data and discussion of changes in the region's population and household characteristics.
• Regional Forecast
• The Regional Development Forecast (RDF) provides detailed population and household numbers at five-year intervals for 233 communities and 1,442 subcommunity areas across Southeast Michigan.
• Historical Population
• Decennial population counts from 1900-2000 are listed for each county, township, village, and city that existed during the time period in Southeast Michigan.
• Economy and Jobs
• Community Profiles: Economy & Jobs
• SEMCOG's most requested data on jobs by industry, commuting to work, daytime population, and income.
• Current Employment Estimates
• Estimates of place-of-work employment that provide a detailed view of economic change at the community level. The estimates cover the time periods March 2002 and March 2005.
• Community Fiscal Capacities - 2009
• This SEMCOG Quick Facts reviews the fiscal capacity of Southeast Michigan communities for 2009, including: the change in taxable value and State Equalized Value (SEV) between 2008 and 2009; the change in taxable value and SEV for residential and nonresidential property, 2000-2009; the ratio of taxable value to SEV, 2009; and forecasts the outlook for Southeast Michigan´s regional taxable value and SEV, for 2010 and 2011.
• Fiscal Capacity & Taxable Value Data - 2009
• This file contains the community-level data for "Community Fiscal Capacities - 2009". Data sets include: Change in Taxable Value, 2008-2009; Change in SEV, 2008-2009; and Taxable Value to SEV Ratios, 2009.
• Fiscal Capacity & Taxable Value Report
• This report examines the fiscal capacity of Southeast Michigan communities and looks at how the economic recession has impacted housing prices, State Equalized Values, and taxable values of communities in the region. The report reviews the change in taxable value and State Equalized Value between 2007 and 2008; and forecasts the outlook for Southeast Michigan′s regional taxable value in the near future.
• Fiscal Capacity & Taxable Value Data
• This file contains the data found in Appendix A of the report, "Fiscal Capacity: Taxable Value and its Implications, 2008". Community-level data sets include: Change in Taxable Value, Taxable Value per Capita, Change in SEV, and Taxable Value to SEV Ratios.
• Forecasted Employment by Sector
• This report contains tables of SEMCOG employment estimates for sixteen employment sectors. The data is reported at five-year intervals from 2005 through future year 2035 at the regional, county, and community level.
• Historical Employment
• Decennial employment counts from 1970-2000 are listed for each county, township, village, and city that existed during the time period in Southeast Michigan.
• Nonresidential Construction
• Summary of nonresidential development occurring in the Southeast Michigan region in 2008. It covers newly constructed buildings, additions and renovations to existing buildings, and redevelopment of various types of projects such as industrial, warehouse, retail, institutional, and office buildings.
• Foreclosures
• Information on residential and nonresidential foreclosures occurring in each county and community in Southeast Michigan.
• Regional Forecast
• The Regional Development Forecast (RDF) provides employment numbers at five-year intervals for 233 communities and 1,442 subcommunity areas across Southeast Michigan.
• Housing
• Community Profiles: Housing
• SEMCOG's most requested data on housing trends, ownership, vacancy, value, and movement into the area.
• Building Permits
• Monthly residential building permit counts for every county and community from 1969 to the present.
• Residential Construction
• Information on new 2009 residential construction in Southeast Michigan by county compared with previous years.
• Foreclosures
• Information on residential and nonresidential foreclosures occurring in each county and community in Southeast Michigan.
• Manufactured Housing
• Manufactured housing parks are defined as those parks containing three of more sites licensed by the State of Michigan. This dataset includes the name and location of manufactured housing parks and number of sites within the park.
• Transportation
• Community Profiles: Transportation
• SEMCOG's most requested data on roads, bridges, safety, transportation to work, commute time, planned projects, and corridor studies.
• Transportation Data Map
• Interactive map of intersections and roads in Southeast Michigan provides a visual method of searching our road network database.
• Intersections and Roads
• A database of major intersections and roads with detailed transportation attributes, including pavement condition, traffic volume, and crashes, for each feature.
• Traffic Counts
• Identify the amount of traffic (stated in 24-hour time period) for specific road segments in Southeast Michigan communities. Please note that not all road segments have traffic counts.
• High-Frequency Crash Locations
• Create a list of the intersections or road segments with the highest number of crashes for any community in the region. Each report provides the five-year crash average for each location, and yearly totals for trend analysis.
• Traffic Crashes
• Search for traffic crashes from 2000-2009 that meet a given search criteria.
• Transportation Projects
• Search for transportation projects in the long-range regional transportation plan and short-range transportation improvement program that meet a given search criteria, such as county, community, work type, etc.
• Land Use
• Community Profiles: Land Use
• SEMCOG's most requested data on change in residential and non-residential development by land use type.
• Land Use Change
• The land use profile summarizes change in land use and land cover from 1990 to 2000 and provides density and percent developed for each community.