Data Updates

Updates Week of January 26, 2026

US Census Bureau, Building Permit Survey

• Update Details: Monthly indicators updated to include September and October, 2025. Year-to-Date data updated to include January-October building permits for each year.
• Impact: Use these data to understand:
  • Construction Activity & Development Planning
  • Economic & Investment Insights
  • How new development activity is affecting affordability and access to housing supply in your community.

• Geographic Availability: Available for state, county, metro and micropolitan area, and place geographies
• Data Recalculation to Custom Boundary: No.

Updates Week of January 19, 2026

The Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES)

• Update Details: Added 27 new job indicators, from 2014 through 2023. These new data include jobs by worker monthly wages, race, age, ethnicity, educational attainment, sex, and firm age. 
• Impact: Use these data to understand local and national trends in the job market, answering questions such as:
  • Where are there new private firms?  (using firm age number of jobs)
  • Where are late (or early) career workers concentrated? (using jobs by worker age)
  • What are worker wages? (using jobs by worker wages)

• Geographic Availability: Available for all geographies
• Data Recalculation to Custom Boundary: Yes.

Updates Week of January 5, 2026

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
National Risk Index (NRI)

• Update Details: Updated the data values to the 2025 vintage, version 1.20.0. Data covers 18 different environmental hazards with hazard risk index scores, expected annual loss, and exposure. 
• Impact: Use the expected annual loss to find the agricultural, building stock, and population impacts for different environmental hazards. Then use the data as part of your community’s planning for environmental hazards and updating of zoning, codes, and ordinances. 
• Geographic Availability: Available for all geographies except block group, city council district, and neighborhood. 
• Data Recalculation to Custom Boundary: The index scores, exposure, and expected annual loss data will recalculate into a custom boundary. 
  
  

US Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS)

• Update Details: Updated the data values to the 2018-2022 vintage. Data covers housing affordability and quality issues.
• Impact: Use HUD CHAS data to evaluate housing affordability for grant applications, federal reporting requirements, or long-range planning. 
• Geographic Availability: Available for all geographies except block group, city council district, and neighborhood. 
• Data Recalculation to Custom Boundary: The data will recalculate into a custom boundary.