I’d love to begin by saying that I have not “arrived” as I believe I am still on a journey of self-discovery. I have heard people say that they find my journey quite interesting and I hope my story inspires someone out there.I had my first encounter with Geographic Information System (GIS) in the third year of my undergraduate study in Geography at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria. I was opportune to be introduced to the essentials of GIS by one of the prominent Environmental and Urban Geographers in person of Dr O.J Taiwo. Even though the whole syllabus and teaching sounded abstract to me due to the little exposure to a practical hands-on approach to GIS software, I developed a keen interest in the theoretical learning and I ended up scoring 70% in my final course exam.

A collection of geo-enabled career profiles produced by Strivven Media and managed by the Esri Schools team. For more information, email schools@eseri.com

Tempe is among Arizona's most educated cities, lending to a creative, smart atmosphere. With more than a dozen colleges, trade schools and universities, about 40 percent of our residents over the age of 25 have Bachelor's degrees or higher. Having such an educated and accessible workforce is a driving factor in attracting and growing jobs for residents in the region.The City of Tempe is a member of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC) and with the membership staff tracks collaborative efforts to recruit business prospects and locates. The Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC) is a performance-driven, public-private partnership. GPEC partners with the City of Tempe, Maricopa County, 22 other communities and more than 170 private-sector investors to promote the region’s competitive position and attract quality jobs that enable strategic economic growth and provide increased tax revenue for Tempe.This dataset provides the target and actual job creation numbers for the City of Tempe and Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC). The job creation target for Tempe is calculated by multiplying GPEC's target by twice Tempe's proportion of the population.This page provides data for the New Jobs Created performance measure.The performance measure dashboard is available at 5.02 New Jobs Created.Additional InformationSource:Contact: Madalaine McConvilleContact Phone: 480-350-2927Data Source Type: Excel filesPreparation Method: Extracted from GPEC monthly and annual reports and proprietary excel filesPublish Frequency: AnnuallyPublish Method: ManualData Dictionary

Dataset featuring the full-time, part-time and seasonal jobs, as well as internships posted on the City's job portal @ https://www.raleighnc.gov/jobs This dataset is updated weekdays by 9am and does not contain past (non-active) postings.

PurposeThis job aid will lead the GIS analyst through the process of manually creating an incident map journal and how to create additional pages for the journal. This process should be used at the beginning of an incident and then the journal should be maintained to assure it remains viable. The incident map journal serves as a curated center to place maps, apps, and dashboards relevant to the incident.

This job aid assumes a working knowledge of how to create maps, apps, and dashboards on ArcGIS Online. For a tutorial, go to the Create apps from maps - ArcGIS Tutorial.Example workflow for the Geo-Enabled Plans Session at InSPIRE. Job Aid developed by FEMA GIS to enable GIS analysts to rapidly spin-up a standardized incident journal.

Data Source: The primary data source used for this analysis are point-level business establishment data from InfoUSA. This commercial database produced by InfoGroup provides a comprehensive list of businesses in the SCAG region, including their industrial classification, number of employees, and several additional fields. Data have been post-processed for accuracy by SCAG staff and have an effective date of 2016. Locally-weighted regression: First, the SCAG region is overlaid with a grid, or fishnet, of 1km, 2km, and ½-km per cell. At the 1km cell size, there are 16,959 cells covering the SCAG region. Using the Spatial Join feature in ArcGIS, a sum total of business establishments and total employees (i.e., not separated by industrial classification) were joined to each grid cell. Note that since cells are of a standard size, the employment total in a cell is the equivalent of the employment density. A locally-weighted regression (LWR) procedure was developed using the R Statistical Software package in order to identify subcenters.The below procedure is described for 1km grid cells, but was repeated for 2km and 1/2km cells. Identify local maxima candidates.Using R’s lwr package, each cell’s 120 nearest neighbors, corresponding to roughly 5.5 km in each direction, was explored to identify high outliers or local maxima based on the total employment field. Cells with a z-score of above 2.58 were considered local maxima candidates.Identify local maxima. LWR can result in local maxima existing within close proximity. This step used a .dbf-format spatial weights matrix (knn=120 nearest neighbors) to identify only cells which are higher than all of their 120 nearest neighbors. At the 1km scale, 84 local maxima were found, which will form the “peak” of each individual subcenter. Search adjacent cells to include as part of each subcenter. In order to find which cells also are part of each local maximum’s subcenter, we use a queen (adjacency) contiguity matrix to search adjacent cells up to 120 nearest neighbors, adding cells if they are also greater than the average density in their neighborhood. A total of 695 cells comprise subcenters at the 1km scale. A video from Kane et al. (2018) demonstrates the above aspects of the methodology (please refer to 0:35 through 2:35 of https://youtu.be/ylTWnvCCO54), with several minor differences which result in a different final map of subcenters: different years and slightly different post-processing steps for InfoUSAdata, video study covers 5-county region (Imperial county not included), and limited to 1km scale subcenters.A challenge arises in that using 1km grid cells may fail to identify the correct local maximum for a particularly large employment center whose experience of high density occurs over a larger area. The process was repeated at a 2km scale, resulting in 54 “coarse scaled” subcenters. Similarly, some centers may exist with a particularly tightly-packed area of dense employment which is not detectable at the medium, 1km scale. The process was repeated again with ½-km grid cells, resulting in 95 “fine scaled” subcenters. In many instances, boundaries of fine, medium, and coarse scaled subcenters were similar, but differences existed. The next step was to qualitatively comparing results at each scale to create the final map of 72 job centers across the region. Most centers are medium scale, but some known areas of especially employment density were better captured at the 2km scale while . Giuliano and Small’s (1991) “ten jobs per acre” threshold was used as a rough guide to test for reasonableness when choosing a larger or smaller scale. For example, in some instances, a 1km scale included much additional land which reduced job density well below 10 jobs per acre. In this instance, an overlapping or nearby 1/2km scaled center provided a better reflection of the local employment peak. Ultimately, the goal was to identify areas where job density is distinct from nearby areas. Finally, in order to serve land use and travel demand modeling purposes for Connect SoCal, job centers were joined to their nearest TAZ boundaries. While the identification mechanism described above uses a combination of point and grid cell boundaries, the job centers boundaries expressed in this layer, and used for Connect SoCal purposes, are built from TAZ geographies. In Connect SoCal, job centers are associated with one of three strategies: focused growth, coworking space, or parking/AVR.Data Field/Value description:name: Name of job center based on name of local jurisdiction(s) or other discernable feature.Focused_Gr: Indicates whether job center was used for the 2020 RTP/SCS Focused Growth strategy, 1: center was used, 0: center was not used.Cowork: Indicates whether job center was used for the 2020 RTP/SCS Co-working space strategy, 1: center was used, 0: center was not used.Park_AVR: Indicates whether job center was used for the 2020 RTP/SCS parking and average vehicle ridership (AVR) strategies, 1: center was used, 0: center was not used. nTAZ: number of Transportation Analysis Zones (TAZs) which comprise this center.emp16: Estimated number of workers within job center boundaries based on 2016 InfoUSA point-based business establishment data. Values are rounded to the nearest 1000. acres: Land area within job center boundaries based on grid-based identification mechanism (i.e., not based on TAZ boundaries shown). Values are rounded to the nearest 100.

This dataset highlights localities that currently require the lower job creation threshold (25+ new jobs) to qualify for the Major Business Facility Job Tax Credit (MBFJTC).

MBFJTC-qualified companies locating or expanding anywhere in Virginia are eligible to receive a $1,000 income tax credit for each new full-time job created over a threshold number of jobs. Companies locating in an economically distressed locality or an Enterprise Zone are required to meet a 25-job threshold; all other locations have a 50-job threshold. For this tax credit, a locality qualifies as economically distressed if its unemployment rate for the preceding year is at least 0.5 percent higher than the average statewide unemployment rate.This data is updated in May/June of each year.Note: Unemployment rates for each county are determined by the Virginia Employment Commission. Additional Resources:Virginia's Guide to Business Incentives

Employment Protection Districts are economically viable industrial and employment-rich areas, having policies that prevent the conversion of industrial land to non-industrial uses. These are for areas in UNINCORPORATED Los Angeles County only.Please see Figure 14.1 and the the Economic Development Element of the Los Angeles County General Plan 2035 for more information. https://planning.lacounty.gov/generalplan/Source: L.A. County Dept. of Regional Planning (DRP) GIS Section; created November 5, 2015.NEED MORE FUNCTIONALITY? If you are looking for more layers or advanced tools and functionality, then try our suite of GIS Web Mapping Applications.

This data collection contains Transit 2017 block group shapefiles and accessibility data dictionary.Accessibility Observatory data reflects the number of jobs that are reachable by various modes within different travel times from different Census-defined geographies in Massachusetts (block, block group, tract). The data comes from the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota, and the underlying jobs data is sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Local Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) dataset. More information about data methodology is available here: http://access.umn.edu/publications/· The data posted on GeoDOT is initially organized by mode: Auto, Transit, Pedestrian, and Bike. With respect to Auto, Transit, and Pedestrian data, data is then organized by geography (group and block group), and then travel time threshold: 30, 45, and 60 minutes. Please note that MassDOT has access to data that reflects travel time thresholds in five minute increments, email Derek Krevat at derek.krevat@dot.state.ma.us for more information. With respect to Bike data, data is organized by geography (group and block group) and then by Level of Traffic Stress; there are four different levels that correspond to the ratings given different roadway segments with respect to the level of 'traffic stress' imposed on cyclists LTS 1: Strong separation from all except low speed, low volume traffic. Simple crossings. Suitable for children. LTS 2: Except in low speed / low volume traffic situations, cyclists have their own place to ride that keeps them from having to interact with traffic except at formal crossings. Physical separation from higher speed and multilane traffic. Crossings that are easy for an adult to negotiate. Corresponds to design criteria for Dutch bicycle route facilities. A level of traffic stress that most adults can tolerate, particularly those sometimes classified as “interested but concerned.”LTS 3: Involves interaction with moderate speed or multilane traffic, or close proximity to higher speed traffic. A level of traffic stress acceptable to those classified as “enthused and confident.”LTS 4: Involves interaction with higher speed traffic or close proximity to high speed traffic. A level of stress acceptable only to those classified as “strong and fearless.” See http://www.northeastern.edu/peter.furth/research/level-of-traffic-stress/ for more information.· Data reflecting access to jobs via Auto is available for each hour of the day at the different travel time thresholds (30, 45 and 60 minute thresholds are posted; five minute thresholds are available by contacting Derek Krevat at derek.krevat@dot.state.ma.us).o For convenience, MassDOT has also created stand-alone summary files that reflect the total number of jobs available throughout the day within 30, 45, and 60 minutes of travel time. See the Data Dictionary, Auto All Jobs for more information.· Pedestrian and Transit data is only available for the morning peak travel period, 7:00 to 9:00 am.· Bicycle data is only available for the noontime hour.· Each of the data files contains data reflecting access to all jobs as well as discrete job opportunities as categorized by the U.S. Census bureau, such as jobs in specific industries, with specific types of workers, with specific wages, or in businesses of certain sizes or ages. See the Data Dictionary for more information.

Please click here for table and filtered views.This dataset contains current active employee data from the most recent semimonthly pay cycle. Information includes employee salary information and department.The City of Greensboro currently employs more than 3,500 people in a wide variety of jobs. We are proud to offer administrative positions, public safety jobs, technical careers, trades work, and more. We hire for all jobs based on qualifications, knowledge, skills, and abilities.The City of Greensboro appreciates our skilled and qualified workforce. We offer a competitive and generous benefits and compensation package.The City of Greensboro is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. (Read more about the City's Diversity and Inclusion program.) Additionally, the City is committed to a family-friendly and drug-free work place environment.Our Mission Statement Maximizing service excellence through human capital management.BenefitsAre you are an employee or are you are interested in employment with the City of Greensboro? Learn more about our benefits by viewing the latest Benefits Book.Careers If you are interested in a career with the City of Greensboro, please go to iApplyGreensboro to see current vacant positions. Read more about the application process. Top Requested DocumentsOverview of the City of Greensboro Total Compensation Program (with links to the executive and general, fire, and police pay structures)Benefits Book Job DescriptionsPolicy Manual

Table from the American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year series on poverty and employment status related topics for City of Seattle Council Districts, Comprehensive Plan Growth Areas and Community Reporting Areas. Table includes B23025 Employment Status for the Population 16 years and over, B23024 Poverty Status by Disability Status by Employment Status for the Population 20 to 64 years, B17010 Poverty Status of Families by Family Type by Presence of Related Children under 18 years, C17002 Ratio of Income to Poverty Level in the Past 12 Months. Data is pulled from block group tables for the most recent ACS vintage and summarized to the neighborhoods based on block group assignment.Table created for and used in the Neighborhood Profiles application.Vintages: 2023ACS Table(s): B23025, B23024, B17010, C17002Data downloaded from: Census Bureau's Explore Census Data The United States Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS):About the SurveyGeography & ACSTechnical DocumentationNews & UpdatesThis ready-to-use layer can be used within ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, its configurable apps, dashboards, Story Maps, custom apps, and mobile apps. Data can also be exported for offline workflows. Please cite the Census and ACS when using this data.<d

The dataset includes polygons representing the location and attributes of Central Employment Area (CEA). The CEA is the core area of the District of Columbia where the greatest concentration of employment in the city and region is encouraged, created as part of the DC Geographic Information System (DC GIS) for the D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) and participating D.C. government agencies. Jurisdictions were identified from public records (map and written description created by the National Capital Planning Commission) and heads-up digitized from the 1995 orthophotographs.

Annual employment and wage data from 2001 to present for boroughs and census areas from Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. FieldsResidentsAge16AndOverResidentsEmployedWagesLessThan5k: Number of residents making between $0 and $4,999 per yearWages5k_10k: Number of residents making between $5,000 and $9,999 per yearWages10k_20k: Number of residents making between $10,000 and $19,999 per yearWages20k_50k: Number of residents making between $20,000 and $49,999 per yearWagesGreaterThan50k: Number of residents making more than $50,000 per yearEmployedInPrivateSector: Number of residents who are employed in the private sectorPercentInPrivateSector: Percent of residents employed in the private sector (of residents employed)EmployedInStateGovt: Number of residents who are employed in state governmentPercentInStateGovt: Percent of residents employed in state government (of residents employed)EmployedFemales: Number of female residents who are employedEmployedMales: Number of male residents who are employed

Employment and wages data for census designated places (CDPs) & cities, census areas & boroughs, and economic regions in Alaska. Includes historic data from 2001 to present.This data has been visualized in a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) format and is provided as a service in the DCRA Information Portal by the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development Division of Community and Regional Affairs (SOA DCCED DCRA), Research and Analysis section. SOA DCCED DCRA Research and Analysis is not the authoritative source for this data. For more information and for questions about this data, see: Alaska Local and Regional Information

Employment and wages data for economic regions in Alaska. Includes historic data from 2001 to present.This data has been visualized in a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) format and is provided as a service in the DCRA Information Portal by the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development Division of Community and Regional Affairs (SOA DCCED DCRA), Research and Analysis section. SOA DCCED DCRA Research and Analysis is not the authoritative source for this data. For more information and for questions about this data, see: Alaska Local and Regional Information

Employment and wages data for all locations, 2001 to 2016. Note on use for analysis: This data set mixes scale. It includes rows for census areas and economic regions, which contain multiple CDP's and cities from this same data set in many cases. To view this data by year and by borough, economic region, or city, add 'Employment and Wages Group Layers' to a WebMap or to the Build Your Own Map application. Contact dcraresearchandanalysis@alaska.gov with questions.Source: Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development.This data has been visualized in a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) format and is provided as a service in the DCRA Information Portal by the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development Division of Community and Regional Affairs (SOA DCCED DCRA), Research and Analysis section. SOA DCCED DCRA Research and Analysis is not the authoritative source for this data. For more information and for questions about this data, see: Alaska Local and Regional Information

ARC has developed a new series of population, household and employment forecasts for the 21-county region through the year 2050. The forecasts help inform the development of the Atlanta Region’s Plan, a long-range blueprint that details the investments that will be made in the next 30 years to improve the Atlanta region’s quality of life.For more information, see https://atlantaregional.org/atlanta-region/population-employment-forecasts

This point layer shows a selection of community gathering places and service centers. Included locations focus on non-profit organizations with dedicated facilities that have a broad public recognition. The types of locations in this layer include arts and culture centers, community centers, health care facilities, community resources, and employment programs. Municipal and academic facilities other than performance facilities are not included. City-owned buildings are accounted for in other data layers. Explore all our data on the Cambridge GIS Data Dictionary.Attributes NameType DetailsDescription Organization type: Stringwidth: 100precision: 0 Name of the organization that provides the service

Address type: Stringwidth: 50precision: 0 Street address of dedicated facility

Neighborhood type: Stringwidth: 50precision: 0 Name of the neighborhood that contains the location

Nhood type: Doublewidth: 8precision: 38 Number of the neighborhood that contains the location

AssetType type: Stringwidth: 100precision: 0 Type of facility: Arts & Culture, Community Center, Community Resource, Employment Program, or Health Care

created_date type: Datewidth: 8precision: 0

last_edited_date type: Datewidth: 8precision: 0

Every four years, the Wasatch Front’s two metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC) and Mountainland Association of Governments (MAG), collaborate to update a set of annual small area -- traffic analysis zone and ‘city area’, see descriptions below) -- population and employment projections for the Salt Lake City-West Valley City (WFRC), Ogden-Layton (WFRC), and Provo-Orem (MAG) urbanized areas.

These projections are primarily developed for the purpose of informing long-range transportation infrastructure and services planning done as part of the 4 year Regional Transportation Plan update cycle, as well as Utah’s Unified Transportation Plan, 2023-2050. Accordingly, the foundation for these projections is largely data describing existing conditions for a 2019 base year, the first year of the latest RTP process. The projections are included in the official travel models, which are publicly released at the conclusion of the RTP process.

Projections within the Wasatch Front urban area ( SUBAREAID = 1) were produced with using the Real Estate Market Model as described below. Socioeconomic forecasts produced for Cache MPO (Cache County, SUBAREAID = 2), Dixie MPO (Washington County, SUBAREAID = 3), Summit County (SUBAREAID = 4), and UDOT (other areas of the state, SUBAREAID = 0) all adhere to the University of Utah Gardner Policy Institute's county-level projection controls, but other modeling methods are used to arrive at the TAZ-level forecasts for these areas.

As these projections may be a valuable input to other analyses, this dataset is made available here as a public service for informational purposes only. It is solely the responsibility of the end user to determine the appropriate use of this dataset for other purposes.

Wasatch Front Real Estate Market Model (REMM) Projections

WFRC and MAG have developed a spatial statistical model using the UrbanSim modeling platform to assist in producing these annual projections. This model is called the Real Estate Market Model, or REMM for short. REMM is used for the urban portion of Weber, Davis, Salt Lake, and Utah counties. REMM relies on extensive inputs to simulate future development activity across the greater urbanized region. Key inputs to REMM include:

Demographic data from the decennial census
County-level population and employment projections -- used as REMM control totals -- are produced by the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute (GPI) funded by the Utah State Legislature
Current employment locational patterns derived from the Utah Department of Workforce Services
Land use visioning exercises and feedback, especially in regard to planned urban and local center development, with city and county elected officials and staff
Current land use and valuation GIS-based parcel data stewarded by County Assessors
Traffic patterns and transit service from the regional Travel Demand Model that together form the landscape of regional accessibility to workplaces and other destinations
Calibration of model variables to balance the fit of current conditions and dynamics at the county and regional level

‘Traffic Analysis Zone’ Projections

The annual projections are forecasted for each of the Wasatch Front’s 3,546 Traffic Analysis Zone (TAZ) geographic units. TAZ boundaries are set along roads, streams, and other physical features and average about 600 acres (0.94 square miles). TAZ sizes vary, with some TAZs in the densest areas representing only a single city block (25 acres).

‘City Area’ Projections

The TAZ-level output from the model is also available for ‘city areas’ that sum the projections for the TAZ geographies that roughly align with each city’s current boundary. As TAZs do not align perfectly with current city boundaries, the ‘city area’ summaries are not projections specific to a current or future city boundary, but the ‘city area’ summaries may be suitable surrogates or starting points upon which to base city-specific projections.

Summary Variables in the Datasets

Annual projection counts are available for the following variables (please read Key Exclusions note below):

Demographics

Household Population Count (excludes persons living in group quarters) 
Household Count (excludes group quarters) 

Employment

Typical Job Count (includes job types that exhibit typical commuting and other travel/vehicle use patterns)
Retail Job Count (retail, food service, hotels, etc)
Office Job Count (office, health care, government, education, etc)
Industrial Job Count (manufacturing, wholesale, transport, etc)
Non-Typical Job Count* (includes agriculture, construction, mining, and home-based jobs) This can be calculated by subtracting Typical Job Count from All Employment Count 
All Employment Count* (all jobs, this sums jobs from typical and non-typical sectors).

• These variables includes REMM’s attempt to estimate construction jobs in areas that experience new and re-development activity. Areas may see short-term fluctuations in Non-Typical and All Employment counts due to the temporary location of construction jobs.

Key Exclusions from TAZ and ‘City Area’ Projections

As the primary purpose for the development of these population and employment projections is to model future travel in the region, REMM-based projections do not include population or households that reside in group quarters (prisons, senior centers, dormitories, etc), as residents of these facilities typically have a very low impact on regional travel. USTM-based projections also excludes group quarter populations. Group quarters population estimates are available at the county-level from GPI and at various sub-county geographies from the Census Bureau.

Statewide Projections

Population and employment projections for the Wasatch Front area can be combined with those developed by Dixie MPO (St. George area), Cache MPO (Logan area), and the Utah Department of Transportation (for the remainder of the state) into one database for use in the Utah Statewide Travel Model (USTM). While projections for the areas outside of the Wasatch Front use different forecasting methods, they contain the same summary-level population and employment projections making similar TAZ and ‘City Area’ data available statewide. WFRC plans, in the near future, to add additional areas to these projections datasets by including the projections from the USTM model.

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