Homebuyers considering a particular part of the country, county, city or neighborhood often want "the facts, ma'am!" before writing an offer on a given home. The internet is a great place to obtain all manner of such interesting data.
If you want information about a particular school or district, begin at The National Center for Education for demographic information on schools and school districts. Then go here for a given school's student-teacher ratio, and race and ethnicity entrollment. Check out these two sites as well: http://www.greatschools.net/ and http://www.schoolmatters.com. I also have links on my website under "Neighborhood" (left side of my home page) for every school district and school in Whatcom County.
Crime statistics, in particular sex offender information, can be had at the National Sex Offenders Registry site: http://www.familywatchdog.us/. This site enables you to enter a given street address and will generate a map showing where sex offenders live. For very specific information, call the local police department in the city where you are thinking of moving.
If you want to know about pollution indices, the location of hazardous waste sites, and similar information, go to the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) site, http://www.epa.gov/epahome/commsearch.htm. For air and water quality information, go to http://www.scorecard.org/.
Finally, for general information about particlar cities and counties, check out the US Census Bureau website. It contains all manner of socioeconomic data and other details. Just click on http://quickfacts.census.gov/gfd/index.html.
Happy searching!
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