Great Smoky Mountains Expressway And Skyland
Foundations
Everyday Life
Environment
Cost & Opportunity
Scores run 0–10 and center on the state median
Fair Housing. Race, ethnicity, language, national origin, income, disability, household makeup, commute and vehicle access, home tenure, and similar characteristics shown anywhere in this report are descriptive context only — never used to rate, score, or rank a place. Using protected-class characteristics to evaluate a neighborhood may violate the Fair Housing Act.
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Fair Housing. Race, ethnicity, language, national origin, income, disability, household makeup, commute and vehicle access, home tenure, and similar characteristics shown anywhere in this report are descriptive context only — never used to rate, score, or rank a place. Using protected-class characteristics to evaluate a neighborhood may violate the Fair Housing Act.
A community-maintained world map with detailed points of interest, roads, bike lanes, parks, trails, and local businesses — the Wikipedia of maps.
A detailed federal map of every river, stream, lake, pond, and canal in the country, used to measure how close a neighborhood is to freshwater.
OpenStreetMap's community-mapped coastline (natural=coastline), used to calculate how far any neighborhood is from the ocean via point-precise distance.
The national inventory of permanently protected public lands — national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and state parks — showing how much protected land is near a neighborhood.
Habitat models from USGS's Gap Analysis Project predicting which vertebrate species — mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians — likely live in or near a neighborhood.
The official 30-year (1991–2020) climate averages for temperature, precipitation, and sunshine at weather stations across the US, interpolated to every neighborhood.