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Discover the best sources of publicly available data on Hoosiers.

IPA partners with STATS Indiana and Candid to curate public data sources and support our members with the information needed to empower their work.

STATS Indiana is the statistical data utility for the State of Indiana, developed and maintained since 1985 by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

External Sites

Census Data Finder

Learn about America's communities through Census data profiles. They cover 100,000+ different geographies: states, counties, places, tribal areas, zip codes, and congressional districts. For each, topics are covered like education, employment, health, and housing just to name a few.

County Explorer from NACO

This tool provides easy access to data that offers a snapshot on a variety of topics relevant to counties nationwide.

County Health Rankings

By ranking the health of nearly every county in the nation, the County Health Rankings help communities understand what influences how healthy residents are.

IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy

The Lilly School provides valuable insights into philanthropy and the nonprofit sector with cutting-edge research.

Candid Insights

The big picture of the social sector, backed by data and expertise.

Early Learning

The Early Learning Access Index is a new methodology that attempts to both qualify and quantify child care access throughout Indiana. This method moves away from viewing access as simply a capacity supply and demand equation and layers in the additional components of quality, affordability, and choice.

Indiana Data Hub

Maintained by Indiana Management Performance Hub, the Indiana Data Hub is your home for actionable data covering a variety of subject matter areas within Indiana State Government.

Growth and Prosperity Project (GPS)

The Indiana GPS Project analyzes a decade of economic and workforce data for all 92 Indiana counties and provides future-focused recommendations for growth and prosperity.

Hoosiers by the Numbers

Labor market information from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, including monthly, quarterly, and annual employment, industry, occupation, and workforce demographics.

STATS Indiana

STATS Indiana provides easy, one-stop access to critical statistics for states, counties, cities and towns, townships, regions, census tracts, and more.

KIDS COUNT Data Center

The Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT® (LA INFANCIA CUENTA™) is a trusted source of data on children, youth and families. Find indicators for the nation, states and more.

CDC WONDER

Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research makes the information resources of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) available to public health professionals and the public at large.

National Center for Education Statistics

NCES offers education demographic and geographic estimates for elementary, secondary, and postsecondary data.

GuideStar

Use GuideStar to look up a nonprofit and access the most complete data available.

ProPublica

Browse millions of annual returns filed by tax-exempt organizations with ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer.

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Labor Force, Unemployment, & Unemployment Rate

State GDP

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