About Marsadata
Marsadata is an observatory of places to live and work. The name comes from the Arabic marsad, an observatory.
What it is for
Choosing where to live or work means weighing what a home costs against what the work pays, and both differ from one county to the next. The official figures exist, but they sit in separate files from separate agencies, in different units and for different areas. Marsadata puts them on one map and one page per place: rents, home values, pay by industry, businesses, household energy prices, population and languages.
What makes it different
- Official statistics only. No crowdsourced prices and no modelled estimates.
- Every figure names its source and its period, and each source is listed with its licence.
- Pay by industry sits next to rents and home values.
- The map is the way in, down to about 85,000 census tracts.
- No account, no paywall. A comparison is a plain link you can share.
- Where no official figure exists, the page says so.
Coverage
The United States is the first country. Other countries follow one at a time, each from its own national statistics, so that a place in one country can be read next to a place in another with the units and dates in view.
Privacy
The site has no visitor accounts, no advertising and no tracking scripts. The details are in the privacy policy.
Reusing the figures
The figures belong to their publishers and are free to reuse under the licences listed on the sources page; keep the credit lines when you do. The terms of use say what applies to the site itself.
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Methodology explains how the figures are handled. The privacy policy says what the site records about a visit.