U.S. housing market intelligence
One dataset for American housing markets
Housing, labor, population, crime, schools and more for every county, metro, ZIP and tract.
Tracts shaded by weighted index against their own metro. Grey means suppressed or below coverage threshold — never filled in.
Built transparently on trustworthy sources
29 sources and counting. Each is ingested regularly to ensure up-to-date data. No secrets. Read how we use each in the methodology.
eleven indexes, twelve topics
Factor what’s important. The map follows.
Birdseye provides 11 transparently curated indexes to give you a defensible signal. For deeper analysis, each of the 270 metrics and trends is selectable for custom indexing and market analysis.
Birdseye Indexes
Categories# of metrics
We are here to make it simple
Tract, place, county or metro. The same metrics, harmonized onto each level.
Each metric and trend is weightable to match your thesis. The map shows your thesis in real time.
Click any geography for the factual detail behind its rank. Read values, trends, benchmarks and the source.
Tract reports
Click an area, get the evidence, build a case
Every report opens with an interpretable story, then works through housing, prices, people, jobs, schools, safety, lending and more. Always compared to regional and national averages for context.
Between 2019 and 2021 this tract inverted. Single-family share of housing units fell from 100% to 53.4% and homeownership dropped 42 points as multifamily delivered — which is why its price, tenure and income signals point in different directions.
Why the numbers hold up
A market call is only as good as the pipeline under it.
Prices move fast; the things that move them do not. School performance, the local job base, incomes, permits and the age of the housing stock shift over years, not months, and they are measured for every geography on the map. Weight them and you are reading the ground a market stands on, not last quarter's headline.
The map re-ranks every tract, ZIP, county and metro the moment you change a weight. Set the mix that describes the market you want and the places that combine those strengths surface on their own, alongside the ones that look good on one measure and fall apart on the rest.
Every level comes with its trend, and every trend with its window and source. Compare where a place stands to where it has been moving, against its metro and the nation, and you can separate durable momentum from a one-year spike before you put money behind it.
Start with the map. Leave with a defensible number.
No setup. Open the country, weight what matters, and drill into any tract.