535 Insights is Lafayette Square Institute's flagship place-based data report on economic wellbeing in the United States. Our library features reports at the state, congressional district, county, and municipal levels, creating over 20,000 individual reports. 535 Insights covers financial security, housing supply, renter wealth, employee ownership, and job quality.
The reports provide readers with 52 unique data points, offering a glimpse into our capabilities and insights.
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Click your state to download its associated 535 Insights reports.
Congressional-district, county and city reports are hosted alongside each state library of any region with a population of over 100,000. If you’d like the 535 Insights report on any other county or Census Designated Place (cities and towns), send us an email at: 535@lafayettesquareinstitute.org
The Opportunity
National averages miss what lawmakers actually need to know. How many businesses in a given district are approaching succession? How many renter households are paying more than half their income toward rent? What share of jobs in a state meet a reasonable definition of a good full-time job?
535 Insights brings those answers into a single compact resource. The tool draws on Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Opportunity Insights, National Center for Employee Ownership, Up For Growth, MIT Living Wage, Urban Institute, and LSI-sourced data to produce a standardized report for each state, county, city, and each of the 435 U.S. House districts.
