Yahoo!’s Neighborhood Profiles Search allows your church to search by zip code to obtain free demographic research about your community. Areas of research include:
- Total Population
- Median Age
- Median Household Income
- Percentage of Single Households
- Percentage of Married Households
- Percentage of Families (households with children)
- Average Household Size
- Percentage of College or Better
- Percentage of White Collars
- Cost of Living Index
- Average Yearly Utility Cost
- Average Household Total Consumer Expenditures
- Average Household Education Expenditures
- Average Household Entertainment Expenditures
- Average Household Transportation Expenditures
- Average Household Retail Expenditures
- Average Household Non-Retail Expenditures
- Total Crime Index
- Personal Crime Index
- Culture Index
Additional Resources: Neighboroo
[...] Over at ChurchRelevance.com, Kent Shaffer points out that Yahoo’s neighborhood profile tool can provide some free basic demographic information about the place where you live. It’s intended as a real estate tool, but it could prove useful to a church or outreach ministry looking for basics facts about the community. I just plugged in my zip code, and was surprised by the results. Pretty nifty. [...]
[...] ChurchRelevance points out a couple of helpful resources for getting demographic information. These sites contain a wealth of helpful data that churches and church planters should take advantage of. [...]