Pioneer Valley
Planning Commission
Regional Information Center
PVPC's Regional Information Center provides comprehensive demographic, economic, and statistical analysis services to the departments of the Commission, member cities and towns, and various public and private sector entities. The Information Center has one of the most comprehensive and accessible collections of demographic and economic data in the Pioneer Valley region, offering this information in numerous forms and publications, both printed and digital.
Regional Information Center Staff
Projects
Presentations
View and download presentations made by the Regional Information Center.
Services
- Assistance accessing and interpreting data readily available on the Internet, including U.S. Census, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and more
- Fee-for-service consultation including demographic analysis, socio-economic analysis, needs assessment, program evaluation, and reporting
- Economic modeling and impact analysis of public and private sector decision-making
- Economic and demographic analysis at various geographic levels (neighborhood to regional)
- Monitoring of regional economic indicators
- Socioeconomic studies at various geographic levels on topics ranging from fair housing to labor market shifts
- Training in accessing, manipulating, analyzing, and interpreting data
- Mapping of Census 2000 data at the municipal, census tract, and block group level
Data and Statistics
View and download data and statistics for the region.
Databases
PVPC's
Regional Information Center maintains and regularly
updates an array of data sets, including:
- Census Transportation Planning Package (CTPP) data
- Community Reinvestment Act information
- Consumer Price Index
- Decennial Census
- Economic Census
- Employer data
- Employment projections
- Home Mortgage Disclosure Act information
- Land use data
- Local Area Unemployment Statistics
- Local employment data
- MCAS scores
- Municipal financial information
- Population projections
- Regional Economic Information System
- Residential building permit data
- Residential real estate sales and price information
- U.S. County Business Patterns data
Publications
View and download publications related to regional information in pdf format.
Additional Information
Each of these links will take you to a web site outside of the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission web site. The web sites will open in a new window on top of the current window.
Federal
- FirstGov (all federal agencies at http://www.firstgov.gov/)
- U.S. Census Bureau
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
State