Small Business Loans

The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) requires large banks to report new small business and small farm loans. For small business loans, the maximum loan size reported is $1 million; for small farm loans, the maximum is $500,000. This indicator reports the new lending to businesses with revenues under $1 million, by amount and number of…

Business Environment – Nonemployer

This indicator reports the total number and the average receipts for U.S. businesses with no paid employees or payroll. Data for this indicator from from the US Census Bureau Nonenmployer Statistics (NES) dataset. These data originate from statistical information obtained through business income tax records that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provides to the Census…

Environmental Justice – Underground Storage Tanks (UST) and Leaking UST (LUST)

This indicator reports the count of LUSTs (multiplied by a factor of 7.7) and the number of USTs within a 1,500-foot buffered block group. Areas with higher UST scores are placed higher in percentile (national ranking). The percentile could be interpreted as, for example, for a place at the 80th percentile nationwide, 20% (i.e., 100…