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American Community Survey (Annual Survey)
The 2005 data include estimates of demographic, social, and economic characteristics of people, households and housing units.

American Fact Finder– U.S. Census Bureau
This is a great source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.

City Data.com
City Data has collected and analyzed data from numerous sources to create as complete and interesting profiles of all U.S. cities.  It contains graphs of latest real estate prices and sales trends, recent home sales, home value estimator, hundreds of thousands of maps, satellite photos, stats about residents (race, income, ancestries, education, employment...), geographical data, crime data and more

Louisville Metro Council
Locate your council person.

National Center for Education Statistics
Search for information on schools in your zip code area.

School Report Card
Locate performance reports for school in your neighborhood

Zip Map
This Google Map mashup will help you find the zip code for anywhere in the United States. Clicking on the map or keying a zip code or address into the search box will zoom the map to the area of that particular zip code.
http://www.zipmap.net/

Map-it
Locate your voting district

Best Places (Sperling's)
Analyzes data about people and places and rates them for major publications. Free but requires creating an account for the most complete information.

Environmental Systems Research Institute: Community Tapestry
ESRI's market segmentation system, classifies U.S. neighborhoods into based on their socioeconomic and demographic composition. Segmentation explains customer diversity, describes lifestyles and lifestages, and incorporates a wide range of data such as demographic, business, and market potential data.

Community Health Statistics
The goal of Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) is to provide an overview of key health indicators for local communities and to encourage dialogue about actions that can be taken to improve a community’s health.

Kentucky State Data Center
Louisville Metro Council districts-detailed statistics (2000 data).

Kentucky Hometown Locator
Profiles for 179,000 cities, towns, neighborhoods and subdivisions.

Neighborhood Link
Neighborhoods, Home Values, Schools, City & State Data, Sex Offender Lists, more.

Vote Smart
Locate candidates for upcoming elections and candidate contact information.

Zip Skinny
The site provides an interesting "first glance" at a ZIP Code area, but it should only be seen as that -- a first glance. It is not a substitute for the more thorough research you should do prior to making decisions about relocating to or conducting business in a particular location.