New Pathways to Planning
Created by Martha Hale, Patti Butcher & Cindi Hickey

Profiling Your Community
Facts and Figures Worksheet


Assembled and adapted by Martha Hale from the South Carolina State Library resource, "Community Analysis Resources on the WWW" and the Public Library Association's Planning for Results.


  1. What are your community's 3 largest employers?

    1st largest________________________________
    No. of Employees:___________
    What do they make or do?__________________________________________________
    How will this employer be different in 5 years? __________________________________________________

    2nd largest_______________________________
    No. of Employees:___________
    What do they make or do?__________________________________________________
    How will this employer be different in 5 years? __________________________________________________

    3rd largest_______________________________
    No. of Employees:___________
    What do they make or do?__________________________________________________
    How will this employer be different in 5 years? __________________________________________________





  2. What are the other significant employers in your area?
    What do they make or do?__________________________________________________
    How will this employer be different in 5 years? __________________________________________________

    Source: ____________________________________________________________



  3. What percentage of your community is unemployed? ____________%

    Source:____________________________________________________________



  4. What is the median family income in your community? $_____________

    Source:____________________________________________________________



  5. What percent of the families in your community are below the poverty line? _____%

    Source:____________________________________________________________



  6. Are there many home-based businesses in your community?
    What do they do?

    Source:____________________________________________________________



  7. Does your community's population change widely during different seasons?

    Which seasons? ________________

    +/- How many people ______________

    Source: _______________________________________________________



  8. What patterns of work schedules are predominate in your community?

    Source _______________________________________________________



  9. Approximately how many home-schooling families are in your community? ______

    Source:_________________________________________________________________



  10. What percent of the people in your community aged 25 and older have at least a high school diploma or a GED? (Note: this includes all technical school and college grads as well) _________%

    Source:________________________________________________________________



  11. What percent of people aged 25 and older have at least 2 years of college? ________%

    Source: ______________________________________________________________



  12. What percent of people aged 25 and older have at least 4 years of college? ________%

    Source:______________________________________________________________



  13. Do the medical facilities in the community draw local/regional people to your community? Y/N_______

    Do the people who work in these organizations live in your community? Y/N_______

    Which of the medical organizations provide information in languages other than English?

    Source: ________________________________________________________________



  14. List any other groups you know to exist in your community or ones that you and your colleagues hear of during the data collection process. Make a note of the sources that led you this information.





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