Local Partners - Research

Demographics Reports

Today's climate of economic development necessitates that information be at the fingertips for the economic development practitioner. KCP&L's Economic Development Team can provide your organization with demographic comparisons and summary reports and connect you with utility and economic development resources to keep you up to date and informed on emerging trends.

KCP&L subscribes to Decision Data Resources, the premiere online source for U.S. demographic data and GIS mapping. If you are a KCP&L-served community, you can have access to maps and reports by contacting a member of the KCP&L Economic Development Team .

Selected features include:

  • Custom reports for any geography
  • Quick and accurate market analysis
  • Fully interactive maps
  • Radius-based maps and reports
  • Summary and comparison reports for any U.S. geography
  • Access to current year estimates and five-year projections
  • Complete access to 1990 and 2000 Census data, as well current estimates
  • Geographies include: custom radii, custom drive times, counties, census tracts, block groups, U.S. places, DMAs, MSAs, New CBSAs, ZIPs and more...
  • Over 40 easy-to-use, pre-formatted summary, comparison and rank reports to choose from
  • Export charts, maps, reports and data in Word and Excel for presentation quality output.

Reports are available in summary, comparison, ranking and radius-based versions. Summary reports contain multiple user-defined variables for a single geography; comparison reports offer side-by-side comparisons of up to 16 geographies; and ranking reports rank multiple geographies by the performance of specific user-defined variables such as gender, income, employment, housing value or household composition. The radius option makes it possible to summarize the entire area of a given radius or to compare multiple radii, depending on the report.

 

Electric Utility Industry Resources

Utility Economic Development Association
Edison Electric Institute
Energy Information Administration
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Electric Power Research Institute

 

Economic Development Industry Resources

International Economic Development Council (IEDC)
American Planning Association
CoreNet Global
Southern Economic Development Council (SEDC)
C2ER
Missouri Economic Development Council
Kansas Economic Development Alliance