U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year
Core source for median household income, median gross rent, median real estate taxes, and owner-cost burden proxies across state and county geographies.
Data Sources
Source Transparency
CostPressureIQ prioritizes reproducible public datasets that can be updated at national scale and mapped consistently across state, county, and city pages.
Primary Inputs
Current Production Sources
Source
SimpleMaps US Cities
City, county, and state geospatial hierarchy used to generate canonical U.S. geography coverage and routing paths.
Refresh Cadence
Update Process
Geography tables are ingested from local source files and normalized to canonical state/county/city routes.
Cost pressure snapshots are rebuilt from ACS releases using repeatable ingestion scripts and a versioned methodology tag.
When data is missing, trend direction and component fields degrade gracefully to INSUFFICIENT_DATA.
Content Path
Where To Go Next
Once sources are reviewed, continue into live geography pages to evaluate how source-driven signals translate into sustainability and pressure scores across states, counties, and cities.