Maptitude and Community Development Mapping

Maptitude is the most capable and least expensive, full-featured mapping software available for Windows. Maptitude was the basis for Community 2020 community planning software, produced by Caliper Corporation for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Now, the latest version of Maptitude can give Community 2020 users access to nationwide geographic files with 2000 Census demographic profile data. Four demographic profiles are included for states, counties, places, ZIP Code tabulation areas, and tracts:

• The Profile of General Demographic Characteristics contains 69 population and 25 housing variables. The variables describe sex, age, race, Hispanic or Latino household relationship, household type, group quarters population, housing occupancy, and housing tenure. Two variables (V51 and V59) duplicate other counts and have been left out of the original 96 variables in this profile. (From SF 1)
• The Profile of Selected Housing Characteristics contains 97 housing variables that describe units in structure, year structure built, rooms, year householder moved into unit, vehicles available, house heating fuel, occupants per room, value, mortgage status and selected monthly owner costs, selected monthly owner costs as a percentage of household income, gross rent, and gross rent as a percentage of household income. Three variables (DP4001, DP4029, and DP4052) duplicate other counts and have been left out of the original 100 variables in this profile. (From SF 3)
• The Profile of Selected Economic Characteristics contains 107 population variables that describe employment status, commuting to work, occupation, industry, class of worker, income, and poverty status. (From SF 3)
• The Profile of Selected Social Characteristics contains 99 population variables that describe school enrollment, educational attainment, marital status, grandparents as caregivers, veteran status, disability of the civilian noninstitutionalized population, residence, nativity and place of birth, region of birth of the foreign born, language spoken at home, and ancestry. Three variables (DP2046, DP2063, and DP2073) duplicate other counts and have been left out of the original 102 variables in this profile. (From SF 3)

Other data available from Caliper includes:

• Low and Moderate Income Areas
• 2002 Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones, and Enterprise Communities

Also available from Caliper is Maptitude for the Web web mapping software. With Maptitude for the Web you can provide interactive access to maps and data on your web site. For example, Maptitude for the Web powers the HUD User GIS Service Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Qualified Census Tract Locator.

 

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