Local Consumer Information
- Use SimplyAnalytics to know how many people in your market area buy a product, belong to a certain demographic, and more.
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As an example, you could use SimplyAnalytics to find data by zip code on the percentage of people in Columbus, Ohio, who shop at Lowe's or who are planning a home improvement project.
- SimplyAnalytics
SimplyAnalytics provides demographic, business, or marketing data down to the local level, allowing users to create customized maps and reports with an almost unlimited number of variables. See my Tips & Tricks Guide for help with this database.
Get Tips & Tricks and Use SimplyAnalytics To:
- Rank geographic locations by consumer, demographic, or economic data
- Create a visual map of consumers in your target market area
- Find businesses and competitors in your geographic region
- Build data tables to compare multiple locations, including cities, states, and zip codes
Use Mergent Intellect to:
- Find Consumer Data and profiles for a specific location
- Gather demographics of a city, county, state, or region
- Search by Resident to find information about specific people
- Mergent Intellect
Use to find companies and competitors by user-defined search criteria, such as size, location, industry, sales, and more. Useful for private company information which includes estimated sales.
- You will want to use census data to compare how your local market demographics align with the more general national demographics of a consumer market.
- Census data will have broad demographics such as age, gender, income range, education, etc.
- They don't measure things such as "who shops at Kroger." However, you can use the national data your learned about Kroger consumers (from Simmons or Mintel) and see if those demographic match your local population.
- Census QuickFacts
Provides easy access to some of the most-used economic and social statistics.
The QuickFacts are an easier way to get to census information than American Factfinder.
