Appendix

Other Regional Resources

Data

US Census Bureau

  • Neighborhood population, measured at tract level
    • Data location
    • Table: P1_001N, Total population, 2020 Census
  • Work from Home data
    • ACS Table B24080
      • Rows
      • B24080_001E: Total employed civilian population 16+
      • B24080_009E: Male: Federal government workers
      • B24080_019E: Female: Federal government workers
  • American Community Survey Comparison
    • ACS Table B23025
      • Row B23025_005E: Armed forces (active duty) residence-based
    • ACS Table B24080
      • B24080 (Sex by Class of Worker for the Civilian Employed Population 16 Years and Over)(Male + Female Federal Worker Totals and Total Employed Civilian Population 16+)

Zillow Research

US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

  • Metro Unemployment Rate
    • Local area data
    • Series: la.data.0.CurrentU00-04 to la.data.0.CurrentU25-29
  • National Unemployment Rate
    • Series LNS14000000
    • The Current Population Survey (CPS), sponsored jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), is the primary source of labor force statistics for the population of the United States.
  • National All employees, Non Farm
  • National All employees, Federal
  • Metro-level All employees, Non Farm and Federal

Property transaction and listing data: Bright MLS

  • Years 2014-2026
  • Retrieved for Washington DC MSA from Bright
  • Notes on creating the Capital Region and jurisdiction-specific home price indices
    • Transactions from 2015 to 2025
    • We estimate log of price as a function of lot square footage, indicator for fireplace, indicators for number of bedrooms (one indicator per total number of bedrooms), indicators for number of bathrooms (one indicator per total number of bathrooms), an indicator for the property’s tax identification number and a set of quarter by year indicators
    • The price index are the coefficients for the quarter by year indicators
    • For all properties with more than 6 bedrooms or bathrooms, we count the property as have 6 bedrooms or bathrooms.
    • We use residential properties only
    • We limit to sale prices of $10,000 or more
    • We require a closing date 2015 or later
    • In each year, we drop the top and bottom 0.5% of prices
    • We drop the transaction if it is missing any of these variables: closing price, total bedrooms, total bathrooms, lot size, and tax identification number
    • We use only property tax indifiers with at least 2 sales

FHFA

Bureau of Economic Analysis

  • National, VA, MD and DC GDP Percent change from preceding period (annualized)