{"id":809,"date":"2005-11-22T09:06:20","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T17:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2005\/11\/if_you_dont_know_your_own_comm\/"},"modified":"2005-11-22T09:06:20","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T17:06:20","slug":"if_you_dont_know_your_own_comm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/if_you_dont_know_your_own_comm.php","title":{"rendered":"If you don&#8217;t know your own community, don&#8217;t blame the government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/factfinder.census.gov\/servlet\/SAFFFacts?_event=ChangeGeoContext&#038;geo_id=16000US5548000&#038;_geoContext=&#038;_street=&#038;_county=Madison&#038;_cityTown=Madison&#038;_state=04000US55&#038;_zip=&#038;_lang=en&#038;_sse=on&#038;ActiveGeoDiv=&#038;_useEV=&#038;pctxt=fph&#038;pgsl=010\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/images\/census.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"128\" width=\"216\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"census map\"><\/a>Friend, colleague, and research wonk Neill Archer Roan reminded me of the wonderful riches available on-line from the U.S. Census Bureau. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/factfinder.census.gov\/home\/saff\/main.html?_lang=en\">American FactFinder<\/a> is a treasure trove of market research and demographic information on your community.<\/p>\n<p>Just run a quick &#8221;fact sheet&#8221; search of your city and you&#8217;ll see what I mean: median household income, education levels, ethnicity, median home value, mean travel time to work, median age, and on and on&#8230;all available in numbers and many available in maps (see the income distribution map of Madison, Wisconsin, included in this post, or just jump to the <a href=\"http:\/\/factfinder.census.gov\/servlet\/SAFFFacts?_event=ChangeGeoContext&#038;geo_id=16000US5548000&#038;_geoContext=&#038;_street=&#038;_county=Madison&#038;_cityTown=Madison&#038;_state=04000US55&#038;_zip=&#038;_lang=en&#038;_sse=on&#038;ActiveGeoDiv=&#038;_useEV=&#038;pctxt=fph&#038;pgsl=010\">fact sheet<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Take 10 minutes to sort your own membership or ticket database by ZIP code. Pick the three most popular ZIPs and get a fact sheet on each. E-mail the links to your staff. Then tell me it wasn&#8217;t time well spent.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Neill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friend, colleague, and research wonk Neill Archer Roan reminded me of the wonderful riches available on-line from the U.S. Census Bureau. Their American FactFinder is a treasure trove of market research and demographic information on your community. Just run a quick &#8221;fact sheet&#8221; search of your city and you&#8217;ll see what I mean: median household [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}