Unemployment Rate by Census Tract

RE: Unemployment Rate by Census Tract

Robin DiSalvo — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:36:28 GMT

Found it! Thank you so much!

RE: Unemployment Rate by Census Tract

Lauren Payne-Riley — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:05:52 GMT

Hi Robin. I work at PolicyMap and would be happy to help you sign up and subscribe. Feel free to message me directly!

In the meantime, if you would like to explore the unemployment data by census tract, our latest mapping platform (which we are just in the process of releasing) will let you see the values without needing to sign in: https://www.policymap.com/newmaps#/. To find the unemployment data you can either search in the data search bar or go to the Economy Menu > Employment and Unemployment > Unemployment > Census ACS Civilians Unemployed. The shortcut link that Bernie posted above sends you to our old platform which is still accurate but lacks some of the new features.

RE: Unemployment Rate by Census Tract

Taylor Lampe — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:24:56 GMT

Depending on which census tracts you're interested in, the City Health Dashboard has this available for download as well (the measure is called "Unemployment - annual, neighborhood-level"). www.cityhealthdashboard.com/

RE: Unemployment Rate by Census Tract

Glenn Rice — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:22:53 GMT

Robin, you can get table B23025 for all US tracts at once on the MCDC site.

https://mcdc.missouri.edu/cgi-bin/uexplore?/data/acs2019/base_tables_5yr

Use the dataset ustracts21_24 for table B23025: https://mcdc.missouri.edu/cgi-bin/broker?_PROGRAM=utils.uex2dex.sas&path=/data/acs2019/base_tables_5yr&dset=ustracts21_24&view=0

Find the variables you need, in your case it's B23025i3 (Civilian labor force) and B23025i5 (unemployed). Save as a CSV, then just use Excel to do the math.

Let me know if you need assistance with this data tool.

RE: Unemployment Rate by Census Tract

Robin DiSalvo — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:27:47 GMT

Thanks Bernie. Unfortunately PolicyMap will not let me signup.

RE: Unemployment Rate by Census Tract

Bernie — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 02:03:35 GMT

PolicyMap has this pre-baked, if you have access to it: https://plcy.mp/H3XG8Vw

RE: Unemployment Rate by Census Tract

Robin DiSalvo — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:57:03 GMT

Yikes! I see what you mean. I think I will leave it out of my project and stick with what I have. Thanks!

RE: Unemployment Rate by Census Tract

Todd Graham — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:33:58 GMT

That's a measure you'd have to calculate yourself.
table B23025: Unemployed / table B23025: In Labor Force

Good luck.