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Development Opportunity Profile Report
Development Opportunity Profile Report
Here are links to the Development Opportunity Profiles for Fairfax, Gibbon, and Winthrop. These reports were written with you, a REV leader in your community, as the primary audience. The remaining sections of this page are the appendices with additional reports and data, that are referenced in these DOPs.
Click here to read the Fairfax DOP
Additional Reports
Additional Reports
Lightcast-Economy_Overview_2_Minnesota_Counties_2575.pdfAppendix - Lightcast Economic Overview Reports
Appendix - Lightcast Economic Overview Reports
Lightcast is a national economic research company providing advanced economic analysis tools. We generated economic overview reports for Fairfax, Gibbon, Winthrop, Reville County, and Sibley County. It's very easy for the Extension team to update these reports or to explore specific topics that come to mind when you read the report.
Sibley and Renville County Economic Profile
LIghtcast_Regional_Comparison_6_Regions_4557.pdfAppendix - Lightcast Regional Comparison Report
Appendix - Lightcast Regional Comparison Report
We also used Lightcast to generate a regional comparison report. For this report, we compared Fairfax, Gibbon, Winthrop, Sibley County, Renville County, and Minnesota.
Headwaters Economics Demographic and Socioeconomic Reports
Headwaters Economics Demographic and Socioeconomic Reports
Headwaters Economics is a free and powerful resource for gathering information about economic and demographic trends in your community. We used the Economic Profile System Tool to generate reports for Sibley and Renville Counties (the smallest geographic region available for the socio-economic trends report. However, reports on demographic trends are available for each city).
Headwaters Demographic Reports
Headwaters Socioeconomic Trends Reports
DATA
DATA
Industry Data Tables
Industry Data Tables
If you're really into having the data and want to dig in, these are the industry data tables we used to conduct the economic analysis for your region. This is a lot of data, so feel free to contact the Extension team with questions.
Some helpful tips:
Sorting is the key to making this data useful.
Sorting by the first column (level) will change the level of industry analysis. Level 2 is the two-digit North American Industrial Classification System code. This represents the broadest grouping of industries. Level 6 is the six-digit NAICS code, the most specific industry type in the United States. The tradeoff we encounter when looking at industry data, especially at a small geographic scale like a city or zip code, is that most data is unavailable. So, we can either look at a broader industry code (lower level) or a larger geography to get information.
Then, look at the other variables and sort those columns from largest to smallest.
As with all data analysis, a graph can be helpful.
City Data
County Data
Appendix -Your Economy Data - Establishment Data
Appendix -Your Economy Data - Establishment Data
https://youreconomy.org/ is a set of economic analysis tools that allows us to gather information about the economic trends in the US. We used this tool to gather data about establishments in Sibley and Renville Counties. It's only possible to retrieve data for geographic areas of a county or larger.
County Your Economy Data
Graphs using the same Your Economy Data
Additional Helpful Data Sources
Additional Helpful Data Sources
US Government Entrepreneurship Data Sources
US Government Entrepreneurship Data Sources
This short guide provides information about some of the most commonly used US Government sources for entrepreneurship data. It describes the data, how it is collected, and how to retrieve it. We encourage you to explore and try gathering data for your community.
Guide to US Government Entrepreneurship Data Sources
Minnesota Compass
Minnesota Compass
A great and easy to use source for information about your community is Minnesota Compass. Minnesota Compass contains profiles for cities and county across Minnesota and all are in an easy to usef format.
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