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Community Development Data & Tools Explorer

Find tools and data sets from around the Federal Reserve to support your work in communities.

Category
Subtopic
Housing
4d Impact Estimator

Minneapolis Fed

This tool can be used to estimate the impact of 4d program expansion on homeowners’ property taxes and on affordable housing units in cities across the Twin Cities metro area based on 2020 data.
Data Format: Interactive
Geographic Coverage: Twin Cities
Housing
A Map of Racially Restrictive Covenants in the City of Philadelphia

Philadelphia Fed

Housing is important to the U.S. economy and to individual financial well-being. Where someone lives affects their job, education, and other opportunities in life. As part of our efforts to identify issues and inform solutions related to the housing market and access to housing, the Philadelphia Fed is examining historical barriers to housing and their…
Data Format: Interactive
Geographic Coverage: Philadelphia
Employment
Anchor Economy Dashboard

Philadelphia Fed

Explore the economic impact of anchor institutions in 524 regions across the U.S. The reliance index demonstrates how dependent regional economies are on these institutions and provides a measure of the national average.

Anchor Economy

Data Format: Dataset
Geographic Coverage: National
Economic Development
Bank On Interactive Map

St. Louis Fed

The St. Louis Fed and Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE) Fund established the Bank On National Data (BOND) Hub to present metrics from financial institutions related to account openings, account usage and consistency, and online access.

Banking

Data Format: Interactive
Geographic Coverage: National
Economic Development
Banking Deserts Dashboard

Philadelphia Fed

Discover banking deserts and potential ones using the Banking Deserts dashboard. This interactive dashboard provides census tract-level data of states and counties from 2019-2025.

Banking

Data Format: Interactive
Geographic Coverage: National
Credit & Debt
Building Wealth

Dallas Fed

Building Wealth is a personal finance education resource that presents an overview of wealth-building strategies for consumers, community leaders, teachers, and students.

Education

Data Format: HTML
Geographic Coverage: National
Employment
Career Ladder Identifier and Financial Forecaster (CLIFF)

Atlanta Fed

The CLIFF suite of tools developed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta models the interaction of public benefits, taxes, and tax credits with career advancement. The CLIFF suite currently includes three core tools—CLIFF Snapshot, CLIFF Dashboard, and CLIFF Planner. Each tool is tailored to meet a client’s needs in different career stages.

Benefits Cliff

Data Format: Interactive
Geographic Coverage: State
Credit & Debt
CDFI Finder

Minneapolis Fed

Looking for a CDFI that serves your neighborhood, city, or region? Enter your ZIP Code in the field below, select a search radius from the drop-down menu, and click “Find a CDFI.” Results will appear in order of their proximity to the specified ZIP Code.

Consumer Credit and Capital, Federal Reserve History

Data Format: Dataset
Geographic Coverage: National, Regional, State
Credit & Debt
Community Credit: A New Perspective on America’s Communities

New York Fed

Interested in knowing what credit conditions are like in your community and elsewhere? The New York Fed’s Community Credit interactive maps highlight credit conditions in communities across the United States. The maps provide measures of credit inclusion and credit stress for the US, as well as for states and counties, from 2005 to 2018. Indicators…

Building Wealth, Consumer Credit and Capital

Data Format: Interactive
Geographic Coverage: National, State
Consumer Credit and Capital, Economic Development
Community Investment Explorer

St. Louis Fed

The CIE includes more than 3 million transactions totaling over $2.2 trillion in community and economic development capital from nine federal programs over a five-year period, primarily 2018-22. Data are based on the location of the project or the recipient of the funds (e.g., the affordable housing development, small business owner or consumer), not the…

Consumer Credit and Capital

Data Format: Interactive
Geographic Coverage: Neighborhood, Regional, State
Credit & Debt
Consumer Credit Explorer

Philadelphia Fed

The Consumer Credit Explorer (CCE) is an interactive tool for examining trends in consumer credit use at the regional, state, and national levels.

Consumer Credit and Capital

Data Format: Interactive
Geographic Coverage: MSA, State
Consumer Credit and Capital
DFA: Distributional Financial Accounts

Board of Governors

The Distributional Financial Accounts (DFAs) provide quarterly estimates of the distribution of a comprehensive measure of U.S. household wealth, beginning with the third quarter of 1989 and through the most recent quarter.

Consumer Credit and Capital

Data Format: Interactive
Geographic Coverage: National