risk assessment data for Municipal bonds - city, county, & school district
What do we do?
The primary focus of the American County Review (ACRe) is the aggregation of data from numerous non-subjective sources, and creating from that data a unique ranking system that is not currently available from other vendors.
Each City/Town, County, and School District, and Opportunity Zone in the United States is ranked using a proprietary methodology that analyzes census data, crime data, environmental data, personal infrastructure data and climate change data.
Ranking data is updated quarterly - within 30 days of each quarter end. Latest Ranking data is as of: 03/31/2019
Rankings are provided at:
City / Town level vs all other Cities / Towns at the State and Nation level - 29,000 Cities and towns in America
County level vs all other Counties at the State and Nation level - 3,141 Counties in America
School District vs all other School Districts at the State and Nation level - 14,300 School Districts in America
Opportunity Zones vs all other Opportunity Zones at the State and Nation level - 8,700 Opportunity Zones in America
Please Note: Clients can license all ranking data, and all underlying data through Bloomberg (BEAP) or OpenFactset
Who would utilize this data?
This patent pending ranking provides a metric that can be utilized by various industries with differing objectives:
Municipal Bond Holders, Municipal Bond Issuers, as well as Traders of Municipal Securities – the Municipal Bond market is an expansive market of over $3 trillion in issuance but suffers from a dearth of timely and insightful research. The ranking data of ACRe is a valuable tool for both issuer (by highlighting their ranking), as well as asset owner, in order to review a unique risk profile of assets held, or municipal bonds on a short list.
ESG Metrics - as the largest provider of Alt Data for the Municipal Marketplace, ACRe's dataset provides countless unique measurements for ESG risks. Example datasets are Crime, Cost of Crime, Safe Dinking Water Violations, Cyberattack/ ransomware incidents (Q2 2019), Flood risk, NFIP claims (Q2 2019), demographic data, and many more.
Personal Real Estate – assisting clients determine which county to live in when choosing a particular residential option. Ranking is provided at the county name level, as well as corresponding Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) value.
Commercial Real Estate – assisting investors and developers with where to best allocate funds on a geographic basis throughout the United States.
Index Benchmark firms – providing a unique and insightful data set that can be utilized to build custom fixed income benchmarks that would exceed the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) guidelines.
Insurance Firms – Insurance and Re-Insurance firms who, as part of their endless need for data, require detailed observations of each county to assist in evaluating risk for insurance and investing activities.
Content for websites – using ACRe Data, creating lists of the top places to live in America will no longer be limited to the top ten (which is subjectively set). Now city, county, school district, and opportunity zone rankings can be provided using specific criteria applied to the entire nation, or targeted to state or even region (i.e., the Northeast).
Data utilized for the Calculation of Rankings
Scores and Rankings are calculated for the following
data inputs:
Demographics
Population
Median Income
Median Housing Value
Unemployment rate
Poverty rate
Real Estate Taxes
Financial
County Debt per Resident
School District Debt per Student
Industry
Industry Concentration Risk
Firm Concentration Risk
Environment
Air - Climate Change
Water - Climate Change
Coastal - Climate Change
Coal Ash pit /pond
Declarations of Disaster
Drought Conditions
Flood Risk (100 year flood)
Fracking Well data
Superfund sites
Water usage
Health
Counties at risk (CDC) - HIV/Zika
Safe Drinking Water Violations
% of population with Diabetes
Opioid Prescription Rates
Overdose Mortality Rates
Lyme Disease
Home Ownership
Home Ownership %
Vacant Housing %
Housing Values
Real Estate Taxes
Personal Infrastructure
Police per capita
Firefighters per capita
Teachers per student
Dentists per capita
Doctors per capita
Social Indicators
Bachelors Degree
Crime
Cost of Crime (New Q4 2018)
