Amazon’s HQ2 Contenders: By the Numbers
Here's a quick look at housing and other economic data for the 20 metros Amazon is considering for its second headquarters -- and up to 50,000 employees.
Amazon’s HQ2 Contenders: By the Numbers
Here's a quick look at housing and other economic data for the 20 metros Amazon is considering for its second headquarters -- and up to 50,000 employees.
Tableau Iron Viz 2017: Zillow Data Three Ways (Download the Dataset)
The competition at Tableau’s annual conference in Las Vegas this fall culminated in an animated finale with three data visualization experts competing to create the most compelling data story.
A Picture’s Worth: Need a Reason to Name Your Child Stuart or Alison?
What's in a name when it comes to home? Lots, it turns out. Annes own the highest-value homes in 10 states, and of all the homes owned by Salvadors nationally, 46.9 percent of those homes are in California.
A Picture’s Worth: Are Home Buyers From China Competing With Americans?
Almost a third of Chinese home shoppers focus on six expensive coastal markets -- and they're overwhelmingly interested in higher-priced homes than U.S. home shoppers.
A Picture’s Worth: How Housing Affordability Changes Across Racial Communities
Nationwide and in many metro markets, rent in black and Hispanic communities consumes a much larger share of household income than in white communities, widening the great divide that already exists between white America and communities of color.
A Picture’s Worth: Where to Maximize Take-Home Pay and Job Opportunities
Where we live has an enormous influence on how we balance the competing demands of living, working and playing. We all (well, most of us) need to work, and communities with stronger labor markets widen our options. We all need a place to live, too, but housing is more costly in some places than in others. And our capacity for play comes out of everything left over from the fruits of our labor after taxes and housing costs – the price we pay to live in a civilized society.
A Picture’s Worth: Driverless Cars
Switching to a driverless system could eliminate roughly two-thirds of the current cost of a typical Uber ride
A Picture’s Worth: Suburban vs. Urban Living
Housing and childcare are typically the two largest budget items for young families, and the choice of exactly where to live – even within a larger metro area – can result in substantially higher or lower costs.
A Picture’s Worth: Mayoral Housing Plans & Population Growth
A lack of new housing supply has been blamed for a raft of housing issues plaguing many large U.S. housing markets, including rapid appreciation, deteriorating affordability (especially at the lower end of the market and for renters) and very limited inventory. In response, mayors’ offices nationwide have formulated plans focused on building new housing and rehabilitating and preserving what housing already exists.
