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NeighborhoodScout.com is a great application to match homebuyers and investors with their preferred neighborhoods. I haven't seen any other website that offers such a comprehensive search. -Hua Wan, MIT

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Explore America at the neighborhood level, with NeighborhoodScout free educational software – a web-based geographic search engine and research tool that covers every neighborhood in the United States. Our software has been featured in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Kiplinger's, and other publications. See why institutions from Harvard University, to Columbia University, to Wickford Middle School in Rhode Island use our academic research software in their curriculum to study and teach about:

  • Social studies, population, and mapping
  • Geography and history
  • Urban planning and real estate
  • Regional and ethnical studies
  • Economics of locations
  • Business patterns and economic development
  • Over 60 social and economic phenomena can be mapped simultaneously

“We use NeighborhoodScout here at Harvard University and it's great! It's a wonderful resource.”
— Thomas Lee, Harvard University

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Open all of NeighborhoodScout’s data, maps, and search capabilities

The software can be used by all those affiliated with those institutions such as teachers, researchers, and students. Access to the software is granted through an institution's web interface, so those requesting free licenses must be able to place a link to the program on the institution's website.

For-profit organization annual licenses:

$9,000.00

Educational licenses
(Comparable to corporate licenses):

FREE

Request a free educational license using this form (limited to 150 per year):

Upon educational license approval, the creators of NeighborhoodScout will email you a link to add to your organization's website. This link will enable access to your free educational software.

Continue reading to learn more about NeighborhoodScout . . .

NeighborhoodScout includes demographic data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census, The National Center for Education Statistics, FBI, the U.S. Justice Department, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, the U.S. Geological Survey, and other federal agencies. Click here to see the types of social and economic information you can combine and map.

This academic research software allows you and your students to investigate, explore, and vividly map wealth, crime, ethnic communities, sprawl, education, housing qualities and conditions, occupations, living conditions, and 60 other social and economic phenomena, to understand the changing mosaic that is today's America.

Here are some example maps:

Map Demonstrating Appreciation Rates in Los Angeles Map Demonstrating Senior Population in Providence
Appreciation Rates in Los Angeles Senior Population in Providence

See different examples and learn even more about NeighborhoodScout demographic and academic research software and its creator, Location, Inc., at http://www.neighborhoodscout.com.