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For over thirty years, our team has supported initiatives across healthcare, non-profit, government, business, and agriculture industries. With this experience, SparkMap is your tool for enhanced community impact.

SparkMap’s Tools

Community Needs Assessment

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Generate downloadable reports for your service area
Access 300+ indicators
Create multi-county and ZIP Code-Level Reports

Learn about our Community Needs Assessment

Map Room

Build interactive maps for your service area
Access 38,000+ map layers
Explore data at all available geography levels

Learn about our Map Room

DATA SOURCES

e.g. U.S. Census Bureau

REPORT INDICATORS

e.g. Change in Total Population

MAP LAYERS

e.g. Households Living Below the Poverty Level, Percent by County, ACS 2014-18

Put SparkMap to Work in your Industry

Health
Government
Non-Profits
More..

Build Your Best CHNA with SparkMap’s

Robust collection of healthcare data
Try our easy-to-use Community Needs Assessment
Explore the 38,000+ Map Room layers, perfect for supplementing CHNAs
Specialized features, including custom area ZIP code-level community needs assessment reports for Premium Annual Subscribers. Learn more about our Subscriptions.

View the Health Industry page

Target areas for community development with SparkMap’s

Data on infrastructure, demographics, environmental assets, and more
Explore the Map Room tools, including Location Opportunity Footprints and Walk Scores
Map Room Data Upload Tool available to Pro and Premium Subscribers

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Identify vulnerable populations with SparkMap’s

Data on income, poverty, housing, homelessness, healthcare, community resources, and more
Explore the easy to use Community Needs Assessment
Try the Vulnerable Populations and Location Opportunity Footprint Tools, located in the Map Room

View the Non-Profit Industry Page page

Have questions about how SparkMap can meet your professional needs? Contact us at sparkmap@missouri.edu.

Academics

From medical researchers to schools of business, academics use SparkMap to quickly access large amounts of secondary data.

Broadband Expansion

Broadband expansion initiatives use SparkMap to access Federal Communications Commission (FCC) data, along with other data on internet use and availability. In addition, SparkMap provides access to relevant data on average household income, education rates, and more.

Community Building

Community building initiatives utilize SparkMap’s data on local infrastructure, demographics, vulnerable populations, and more to form plans for new programming, business development, and infrastructure.

Economics

Economists use SparkMap to access quality data on a wide array of information — from household income to business and agricultural expenditures and revenue.

Environmental Services

Environmentalists make ample use of SparkMap’s impressive sets of base maps displaying land types, land utilization, water locations, and more. They also access SparkMap’s always up to date data on climate issues.

Real Estate

Real estate groups use SparkMap to gain more thorough knowledge of the communities in which their properties are located. From demographics and school test scores to community health and wellness, SparkMap’s data provides a well-rounded picture of any community.

Other

Don’t see your industry listed? Don’t worry! We’ve worked with a wide array of industries and are happy to chat about your industry’s fit.

We use SparkMap data for courses in community nutrition. We are currently teaching an Advanced Community Nutrition course in our online MS Clinical Nutrition program. Students can go through a case study using SparkMap data tools and addressing nutrition needs for the diabetic in the community.

Department of Nutritional Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison

I use SparkMap to create [Community Needs] Assessment Reports that contain a wide array of indicators related to demographics, socioeconomics, health behaviors, and health outcomes for a specific geographic area. I’ve used these assessment reports as a major resource for our CHNAs since they contain nearly all areas that we are required to report on and more. The SparkMap tool is a huge time saver since I no longer have to go to each individual data source to find what I need as they are already loaded and included in the assessment reports!

Southeast HEALTH

I have been using SparkMap to pull data for our CHNA process. SparkMap has saved me significant amounts of time by being able to create saved locations for our hospital communities.