Introduction to the Peer Cities Identification Tool

May 8, 2018

Presented by Susan Longworth

For policymakers, community leaders, city leaders, city planners, and business leaders, identifying a peer city can provide much needed context to them when looking to solve problems in their city: What are other cities experiencing? How are other cities approaching the same issues that we have?

It would be great to able to compare data between peer cities. How can I do that? The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago developed the Peer City Identification Tool a data comparison and visualization tool that draws upon 2016 data from the American Community Survey and census records for nearly one thousand cities. It identifies groups of similar cities along economic, demographic, social, and housing dimensions.