This We Know is a search engine for US Government data about your community. To find data about your community simply enter your community’s name or enter your community’s zip code. This We Know draws its data from Data.gov. Some of the data that you will find include the number of factories in a community, rate of violent crime, and demographics.

Applications for Education
This We Know could be the starting place for a student research project comparing communities. Students can compare communities and then present a case, based on the data, for which community they would most like to live in.

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