by Sean Coté | Aug 22, 2022 | Data Highlights, Data Literacy, Demographics, Detroit, Education, literacy
A persistent datapoint in conversations about Detroit is that nearly ½ of Detroit residents are illiterate. We’ve addressed the problematic methodology of that datapoint before, but we often receive many questions about literacy in the city and Metro Detroit region...
by Stephanie | Jun 23, 2022 | D3 Deep Dive, Detroit, Neighborhoods, Stephanie Quesnelle
Recently, D3 received a request for data about the number of places of worship and church-owned properties in the City of Detroit. Many churches in Detroit own additional property, such as lots adjacent to their building, or operate religious housing coalitions to...
by Sean Coté | Apr 27, 2022 | Detroit, Economy, Jordan Graves, transit
As part of updating a presentation on regional employment patterns, we created new graphics exploring the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) data, specifically looking at changes from 2015 to 2019. What is LEHD? The Longitudinal Employer-Household...
by d3wpadmin | Jul 9, 2014 | Detroit
In November 2013, the Motor City Mapping project moved forward at a dizzying pace, with the goal of identifying every blighted structure and empty lot in the city of Detroit. Loveland Technologies was in the process of finalizing the Blexting application for the...
by d3wpadmin | May 27, 2014 | Detroit, Uncategorized
Data Driven Detroit (D3), an affiliate of Michigan Nonprofit Association (MNA), is excited to participate in the release of the Detroit Blight Removal Task Force’s final report, “Every Neighborhood Has a Future…And It Doesn’t Include Blight.” Detroit Blight Removal...
by d3wpadmin | Aug 9, 2013 | Announcement, Detroit, Environment
With generous funding from the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation, Data Driven Detroit is proud to have provided technical support for the Detroit Environmental Agenda (DEA). The DEA was created by a coalition of 10 local organizations that laid out a...
