Empowering U.S. communities with data-driven insights

Mastercard is a leading global payments & technology company that connects consumers, businesses, merchants, issuers & governments around the world. The Inclusive Growth Score includes insights based on Mastercard’s anonymised and aggregated transaction and merchant location data.

The Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a U.S. nonprofit organization with a mission to "create parks and protect land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come."

The U.S. Geological Survey Protected Areas Dataset (PAD) is America’s official national inventory of terrestrial and marine protected areas that are dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity and to other natural, recreation and cultural uses, managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means. IGS limits PAD location that are Open Access, used to supplement the Trust for Public Land dataset.

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is a Cabinet department in the Executive branch of the United States federal government. The Inclusive Growth Score uses HUD’s Labor Force Engagement Index.

The American Community Survey (ACS) is the premier source for information about America's changing population, housing and workforce. The Inclusive Growth Score uses several data points from ACS including percentage of affordable housing and internet access.

The FFIEC is a formal U.S. government interagency body composed of five banking regulators that is "empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms to promote uniformity in the supervision of financial institutions". IGS leverages a metric on the change in number of business loans.