Site and project screening
Identify city status, school district, Metro UGB status and the fee schedules already connected to those geographies.
For policy practitioners
See how public rules land on a place.
Place-based tools for planners, analysts, public managers and community-development practitioners who need to connect parcels, jurisdictions, fees and governing sources.
Flagship practitioner tool
Parcel & Rules Explorer
Search an address or zoom to a tax lot. Select a parcel to inspect its verified jurisdiction stack, current mapped fee records and governing-source links.
Washington County tax lots · Metro city, school-district and UGB boundaries
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Regional comparison tool
Census & Community Data Comparator
Compare ten Portland-area cities with their peers and the Portland metropolitan region. Sort by topic and community, follow year-over-year change, inspect the regional gap and download the prepared data behind the view.
Open the comparison workspace →Geographies10 cities + metro region
Prepared records3,971 observations
ACS series2010–2024
Population series2000–2025
Neighborhood change tool
Community Vision Tract Atlas
Map prepared Census, employment, health, vulnerability and environmental-justice indicators through Beaverton’s Livable, Sustainable, Accessible, Connected and Safe vision areas. The atlas combines ACS, LODES, PLACES, SVI and EJI while explicitly marking topics whose next tract source is still being prepared.
Open the tract map →Annual releases16 ACS + 22 LODES datasets
Current geography134 Washington County tracts
TopicsFive Community Vision areas
Prepared data25 ACS + 184 employment + 30 selected indicators
Jobs and mobility tool
Washington County Commuteshed Explorer
Select a Washington County tract and see where residents work or where workers live. The map follows tract-to-tract job connections while the side panel ranks Portland and every other connected community.
Open the commuteshed explorer →Selected geography134 Washington County tracts
Mapped regionSeven Portland-area counties
DirectionsResident → job + job → worker
Published sourceLODES 8 · 2023
Regional economy tool
Washington County Industry Explorer
See where each of 20 industry sectors is concentrated, compare jobs by workplace with workers by residence, and follow countywide employment change from 2002 through 2023.
Open the industry explorer →Industry sectors20 NAICS sectors
PerspectivesWorkplace + residence
Time series2002–2023
Geography2020 Census tracts
Policy uses
Move from a location to a defensible next question.
The explorer is designed for early research and scoping—making overlapping systems legible before a practitioner begins formal verification.
Cross-jurisdiction research
Build toward consistent comparisons of development rules, SDCs, construction excise taxes and administrative requirements.
Source-backed policy work
Move from a displayed rule or rate to the original ordinance, code, manual or fee schedule used to support it.
Coverage & limits
Useful now. Explicit about what comes next.
The map distinguishes verified spatial joins from sources that have been collected but cannot yet be asserted for a specific lot.
Mapped and joinedTax lots, situs addresses, incorporated-city status, school districts and Metro’s urban growth boundary.
Normalized fee recordsWashington County transportation development tax, Metro construction excise tax and school construction excise tax records.
Next boundary trancheWater, sewer, fire, park and recreation, and special SDC/TSDC applicability areas.
City-law expansionBeaverton is the first detailed city library; the remaining Washington County cities will be added through the same source-first process.
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