Vacant Structures by Census Block, Q4 2013 - Q4 2014

<p>In January, 2014, Data Driven Detroit (D3) purchased a license of the Valassis Corporation's VNEF Plus database to receive quarterly updates of address-level vacancy data. Though the address-level data are restricted by confidentiality clauses, D3 processed and aggregated this database to the Census block-level to provide high-resolution tracking of structure vacancy in Detroit across time. The dataset contains data on the number and percent of vacant structures (with whether a parcel contains a structure identified by Motor City Mapping survey data) in each of the nearly 16,000 Census blocks in Detroit. The data span the timeframe from Q4 2013 through Q4 2014.</p> <p><a href='http://datadrivendetroit.org/web_ftp/motorcitymapping/Metadata/QuarterlyVacancy_BlockLevel/Metadata_BlockLevel_VacancyAggregations.xls' style='line-height: 1.38461538461538;' target='_blank'>Field description metadata</a> and a <a href='http://datadrivendetroit.org/web_ftp/motorcitymapping/Metadata/QuarterlyVacancy_BlockLevel/Narrative_BlockLevel_VacancyAggregations_Final.pdf' target='_blank'>narrative summary</a> providing further detail on the creation of the dataset are also available for download.</p>

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