Area Fact best places to live

Area Fact gives facts about livability of places. It provides regional, geographical related data, information, statistics of places & neighborhoods in the USA. Look for area specific information including demographics, cost of livings, crime rates, religion, taxes, housing, real estate, climate, schools, public education, transportation, commute, jobs and employments. Find the best places to relocate, live, work, raise a family or retire.

Locations are specified in geographic levels by zip code, city, town, county or state. It can also be entered by clicking on the background map, which conveniently display zip code boundary of places. After a position on the map is clicked, a selection box pops up to allow the further determination of which area in the location hierarchy to use - zip code, town/city, county or the entire state.

Demographic information comes mainly of official data from the US census bureau. They include resident population, size of area, population density, population distributions by gender, population distributions by race, medium age of residents, medium age by gender, medium age by race, household count, household size, household composition, medium family income, household income distributions, household age distributions, education background, marriage statistics, primary languages spoken, owner occupied vs. renter occupied homes, house ages, property tax rate, etc.

Climate information includes the high, low, average temperatures as well as the amount of rainfall and number of days when heating and air conditioning are needed in each and every month and the entire year as a whole.

School information includes a list of school districts within a state and a list of public schools within a school district, list of schools in a city, a town or a zip code. For each entry in the listing, there is the school name, address, type of schools (e.g., regular, vocational, special Ed, charter school and magnet school), grades offered, number of students, general rating and rating score by parents, etc.

Cost of living information includes the national percentile, overall index and indices breaking down into subcategories like grocery, health care, utilities, transportation and miscellaneous expenses, etc.

Housing and real estate information includes data such as mortgage to income ratio, owner occupied homes percentage, number of rooms in a home, median house listing price, median sold price, listing price per square feet, number of houses for sale, recently sold homes, housing age distributions, property tax rate, etc.

Crime information currently has indices of violent and non-violent (property) crime in the neighborhood. It will be expanded to include other data such as count of crime incidences and number of registered offenders, etc. in the near future.

Transportation information contains statistics on ways of transportation to work for residents, which includes numbers of people using private vehicles, public transportation, bicycle/walk, work from home, etc.

A clickable map with zip code overlay for viewing and searching. When a location on the map is clicked, the user has a choice for picking a zip code, town or city, county, or the entire state as the target location. The "About" section provides general descriptions about the local area including the history of the region, local climate and geographic characteristics, school systems, etc.

Version 2.x has improved location detection algorithm and allows re-positioning of background map to user's current location. It also includes the new "Religion" category showing religions of populations and also support retrieving churches information including name, address and church denomination.

New data and data groups are also added constantly between the release of new App versions.