This legal page summarizes source attribution and limitation language. The canonical browsable source registry for users is the Source Registry.
Place Signals is grounded in official federal data, trusted public datasets, and licensed supporting sources. We combine those inputs with deterministic scoring and provenance tracking so users can evaluate what contributes to each result.
Core federal sources
- U.S. Census Bureau for population, housing, income, commuting, business formation, establishments, and related community indicators.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics for employment, wages, labor market, and business cycle context.
- Bureau of Economic Analysis for county, regional, and macroeconomic context where available.
Additional trusted sources
We also use other official public sources, state and local open data, geospatial boundary data, government registries, open map data, and licensed or partner-provided datasets where appropriate.
Attribution and limits
Source vintage, update cadence, coverage status, and known limitations should be tracked in the product and in report outputs. Derived scores are Place Signals models and should be interpreted alongside the underlying source data.
The Source Registry should remain the canonical route for detailed source names, publishers, status labels, coverage, refresh cadence, and signal definitions. For a plain-language overview of uncertainty and limitations, see the Data Disclaimer.