ETI Maps of Purchasing Power Density for the 100 Largest Metro Areas The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute provides comparison data on purchasing power, business activity, and workforce density for all residential ZIP codes and the 100 largest metro areas in the U.S. The profiles are designed to help cities, businesses, developers, and organizations assess the advantages of urban density for underserved city neighborhoods. The ETI Purchasing Power Profiles provide estimates of expenditures by neighborhood for 16 categories of expenditures. Maps showing the density of spending by census block group are available for FOOD AT HOME and APPAREL AND RELATED SERVICES for each of the 100 largest metro areas in the U.S. through the links below.  Select metro area: Akron, OH PMSA Albany--Schenectady--Troy, NY MSA Albuquerque, NM MSA Allentown--Bethlehem--Easton, PA MSA Ann Arbor, MI PMSA Atlanta, GA MSA Austin--San Marcos, TX MSA Bakersfield, CA MSA Baltimore, MD PMSA Baton Rouge, LA MSA Bergen--Passaic, NJ PMSA Birmingham, AL MSA Boston, MA--NH PMSA Buffalo--Niagara Falls, NY MSA Charleston--North Charleston, SC MSA Charlotte--Gastonia--Rock Hill, NC--SC MSA Chicago, IL PMSA Cincinnati, OH--KY--IN PMSA Cleveland--Lorain--Elyria, OH PMSA Columbia, SC MSA Columbus, OH MSA Dallas, TX PMSA Dayton--Springfield, OH MSA Denver, CO PMSA Detroit, MI PMSA El Paso, TX MSA Fort Lauderdale, FL PMSA Fort Worth--Arlington, TX PMSA Fresno, CA MSA Gary, IN PMSA Grand Rapids--Muskegon--Holland, MI MSA Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC MSA Greenville--Spartanburg--Anderson, SC MSA Harrisburg--Lebanon--Carlisle, PA MSA Hartford, CT MSA Honolulu, HI MSA Houston, TX PMSA Indianapolis, IN MSA Jacksonville, FL MSA Jersey City, NJ PMSA Kansas City, MO--KS MSA Knoxville, TN MSA Las Vegas, NV--AZ MSA Little Rock--North Little Rock, AR MSA Los Angeles--Long Beach, CA PMSA Louisville, KY--IN MSA McAllen--Edinburg--Mission, TX MSA Memphis, TN--AR--MS MSA Miami, FL PMSA Middlesex--Somerset--Hunterdon, NJ PMSA Milwaukee--Waukesha, WI PMSA Minneapolis--St. Paul, MN--WI MSA Mobile, AL MSA Monmouth--Ocean, NJ PMSA Nashville, TN MSA Nassau--Suffolk, NY PMSA New Haven--Meriden, CT PMSA New Orleans, LA MSA New York, NY PMSA Newark, NJ PMSA Norfolk--Virginia Beach--Newport News, VA--NC MSA Oakland, CA PMSA Oklahoma City, OK MSA Omaha, NE--IA MSA Orange County, CA PMSA Orlando, FL MSA Philadelphia, PA--NJ PMSA Phoenix--Mesa, AZ MSA Pittsburgh, PA MSA Portland--Vancouver, OR--WA PMSA Providence--Fall River--Warwick, RI--MA MSA Raleigh--Durham--Chapel Hill, NC MSA Richmond--Petersburg, VA MSA Riverside--San Bernardino, CA PMSA Rochester, NY MSA Sacramento, CA PMSA St. Louis, MO--IL MSA Salt Lake City--Ogden, UT MSA San Antonio, TX MSA San Diego, CA MSA San Francisco, CA PMSA San Jose, CA PMSA Sarasota--Bradenton, FL MSA Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton, PA MSA Seattle--Bellevue--Everett, WA PMSA Springfield, MA MSA Stockton--Lodi, CA MSA Syracuse, NY MSA Tacoma, WA PMSA Tampa--St. Petersburg--Clearwater, FL MSA Toledo, OH MSA Tucson, AZ MSA Tulsa, OK MSA Vallejo--Fairfield--Napa, CA PMSA Ventura, CA PMSA Washington, DC--MD--VA--WV PMSA West Palm Beach--Boca Raton, FL MSA Wichita, KS MSA Wilmington--Newark, DE--MD PMSA Youngstown--Warren, OH MSA

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Free Purchasing Power Profiles, Business Activity, and Workforce Density Data Available Online

• For further background on the ETI Purchasing Power/Workforce Density Project, see www.uwm.edu/Dept/ETI/PurchasingPower/purchasing.htm

• To obtain free custom made printouts of estimated purchasing power per square mile and workforce density data for any combination of U.S. census tracts (by county), go to the ETI Census Tract Page.

• To access data and rankings for purchasing power per square mile for 16 expenditure categories for the 100 largest metro areas, go to the ETI Metro Areas Data Page.

• To access data on purchasing power, business activity, and workforce per square mile for any ZIP code in the U.S., go to the ETI Zipcode Data Page.

• For a discussion of the methodology used, see ETI Methodology Page.

• To make your own maps, download free shapefiles and business, household/income, and workforce census databases from the U.S. Data Downloads Page.

• For further information, contact John Pawasarat at pawasara@uwm.edu.

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