Tools and Resources
The Community Development Department offers a variety of tools and resources pertaining to community development issues.
Fed Small Business
This website is home to the latest reports base on the Small Business Credit Survey. This survey provides timely insights on small-business conditions to policymakers, service providers, and lenders. The survey is a national sample of small businesses, and its reports focus attention on growing and changing segments of the small-business market, including startups, minority-owned firms, women-owned firms, rural firms, and self-employed and gig-economy workers. Learn more
Home Mortgage Explorer
This data tool, developed by the Federal Reserve Banks of Philadelphia and Cleveland, allows users to more easily explore trends in mortgage lending between 2010 and 2015 for the nation, states, and metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas. Explore
Community Stabilization Index
The Community Stabilization Index (CSI) provides a relative measure of local housing market conditions, with a particular focus on recovery potential. The index is specific to conditions at the zip code level and is comparable across all zip codes within a metropolitan statistical area (MSA). Periodic recalculations of the CSI allow community leaders, for example, to track relative changes in housing market conditions through time at the zip code level. Explore
Community Issues Survey
These reports summarize the foremost concerns both current and emerging among respondents of our Fourth District Community Issues survey.
2016 edition
2011-2015 editions
FedCommunities.org
Through this one portal you can access hundreds of community development resources from thirteen Federal Reserve sites. Whether you’re a community development practitioner, banker, government official, policymaker, or academic, you’ll find data, applied research, webinars, podcasts, events, and much more from across the Federal Reserve System.
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