CityEconomy
Visitation and movement intelligence for economic hubs, downtowns, commercial zones, business districts, shopping malls, tourist destinations, and major events — footfall counts, visitor origins, demographics, dwell time, and consumer spending patterns that drive revenue for your city.
How agencies put CityEconomy to work
From downtown revitalization to destination marketing, economic development teams turn visitation and spending intelligence into data-driven outcomes.
Downtown Revitalization
Prioritize investments with evidence — visitation, visitor origins, and spending patterns show exactly where downtowns and districts need reinvestment most.
Business Attraction & Retention
Show prospective retailers, restaurants, and developers the real foot traffic, demographics, and spending power of a location before they sign a lease.
Economic Development Grants
Win state and federal funding with defensible footfall counts, equity analysis, and economic impact evidence that grant reviewers trust.
Tourism & Destination Marketing
Measure where tourists come from and what they spend, so you can target marketing, justify tourism budgets, and prove return on destination campaigns.
Events, Festivals & Placemaking
Measure attendance, dwell time, and visitor spending for every festival, market, and activation — prove impact and plan next season with confidence.
Business Improvement Districts
Give BIDs and merchant associations the numbers to justify assessments, guide programming, and show members the value their district delivers.
The many ways CityEconomy empowers your agency
An impressive collection of features and capabilities that economic development teams, downtown authorities, and tourism agencies use every day.
Downtowns, Districts & Economic Hubs
Every downtown, commercial zone, business district, shopping center, and tourist destination on one geospatial map, with standard and satellite views — each dot is a place CityEconomy measures.
Custom-defined Geofences
Draw a custom shape around any district, corridor, mall, or event footprint and get footfall and spending statistics for exactly the area you define.
Footfall & Visitation Patterns
Accurate monthly, weekly, daily, and hourly visit counts for every place in your economy — inferred from mobility big data and validated against ground truth.
Event & Festival Attendance
Measure turnout for festivals, markets, concerts, and downtown events, and compare year over year to prove economic impact to council, sponsors, and merchants.
Dwell Time Analysis
Average time spent per visit, broken into dwell-time bands — know which districts and destinations hold visitors and which are pass-throughs.
Returning Visitors
Separate first-time visitors from regulars and track how often people come back — a direct read on loyalty to your downtowns and commercial destinations.
Time Series Historical Trends
Daily visitation charted across months and years to reveal growth, decline, and the impact of new developments, closures, and events.
Seasonal Visitation Trends
See how activity shifts across seasons and holidays, so you can plan programming, promotions, and staffing around real demand.
Activity Heat Maps
Heat maps show exactly where visitors concentrate within each district — which blocks, storefronts, and corners get the most foot traffic.
Visitor Origins — Out-of-City & Out-of-State
See where visitors come from and how far they travel, separating local residents from regional, out-of-city, and out-of-state visitors to understand your true draw.
Visitor Demographics
Anonymized, aggregated visitor profiles — age, income, education, and household composition — so you know who your districts serve and who is missing.
Consumer Spending Patterns
See how visitors to your downtowns, districts, and businesses actually spend. Consumer spending patterns are available at the Census Block Group (CBG) level for every county across the United States.
600+ Spending Categories
Spending broken into over 600 categories rolled up to top-level groups — food at home, food away from home, housing, apparel, transportation, healthcare, entertainment, education, and more — with grocery and restaurant capture for food demand and supply.
Spending Data You Can Trust
Built from an actual panel of anonymized transaction data combined with a sophisticated model that blends ACS 2024, BLS CE 2024 PUMD, CityData Places (POI), and crowdsourced mobility data — defensible spending intelligence at neighborhood resolution.
Weather Correlations
Visitation and spending correlated with temperature, rain, snow, humidity, and season, so you can separate weather effects from real changes in demand.
Agentic AI Chatbot
Ask questions in plain English — “which district grew fastest this quarter?” — and get answers straight from your own visitation and spending data.
Everything included
The full CityEconomy feature list, standard with every subscription.
- Privacy-compliant, anonymized, and aggregated data
- GDPR, CCPA, and PDPA compliant — with customer indemnification
- Full dashboard that works on desktop and mobile
- Unlimited users within your agency at no extra cost
- Dashboard customized with your agency name and logo
- Internal version for staff, public-facing version for residents
- Cross-visitation between districts, venues, and businesses
- Ground-truth validation against sensors and field counts
- Unlimited downloadable reports and Excel or CSV data files
- Direct access to Google cloud data warehouse for SQL queries
- Dedicated Customer Success Manager and Account Manager
Works better together
CityEconomy pairs naturally with the Local Economic Development product family:
CityEvents
Know the attendance count, visitor origins, demographics, for local events, festivals, concerts, sports venues, and conventions centers.
Learn more →CityFlow
See exactly how the people move through your city by cars, bikes, buses, trains, or on foot, to pinpoint exactly where congestion starts.
Learn more →CitySensor
Count people, vehicles, and animals with precision using our ruggedized outdoor solar-powered 4G IoT privacy-compliant optical sensors.
Learn more →CitySurvey
Capture the ground truth data in real time by setting up surveying apps on any mobile device in parks, trails, events, downtowns, & intersections.
Learn more →Pricing that fits public budgets
starts as low as $199/month
Designed so that smaller towns with limited budgets can still make data-driven decisions. Every plan includes unlimited users and a dedicated Customer Success Manager.
$199/month
Towns and villages with limited budgets
$415/month
Growing cities and business districts
$830/month
Big-city downtowns and commercial cores
$1,245/month
Countywide agencies and regional economies
$1,660/month
Major metropolitan economic development agencies
Every tier includes the full CityEconomy feature set — the only difference is the size of the community you serve.
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