Twin Cities Data Doorway
Sponsored by Twin Cities Research Group / Census Working Group


Your Entry Point to Community Data

Other Data Sources

To reach the University of Minnesota Government Publications Library (with links to state and national Census data for 2000 and earlier years) click here

To reach Datanet, the statistical information database from Minnesota Planning, click here

To reach the University of Minnesota Library's tutorial helping you find census data on Datanet, click here

To reach the University of Minnesota Library guide to mapping Census data click here

To reach the University of Minnesota Extension data on Twin City neighborhoods click here

To reach Census summaries for Twin Cities counties prepared by the Star Tribune click here

To reach an index of recent stories in the Star Tribune covering the Census click here

To reach the Urban Instititute's National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership click here


Mapping resources



To read a tutorial that can help you produce your own GIS maps (based on ESRI's Arcexplorer) click here

To download ESRI's Arcexplorer (use link about 1/3 of the way down the page) click here

You can map data for any city or census tract in Hennepin County, or any Minneapolis neighborhood, using HenMap, a powerful, but simple-to-use interactive mapping, graphing, and data extraction tool.  HenMap was developed by the Hennepin County Office of Planning & Development for integrated mapping and analysis of Census, client, and facility data. To access community corrections, economic assistance, health care, and Census data through HenMap (which can be downloaded onto Windows computers) click here

For other resources helping you create environmental and natural resource maps, click here

To create your own demographic maps of rural counties anywhere in the US (you do not need your own mapping software to do this; it is supplied on this site) click here

To obtain the free LandView III (tm) mapping program from Right To Know that allows you to create maps for any US county you select (only selected demographic, pollution, and streets data is provided on this site) click here


E-mail us if you know of a data set or report that should be linked to the Data Doorway, or if you have suggestions for how to make this more useful to you!




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