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August 31, 2005
Using Census Data in Your Business Plan
One of the biggest hurdles many business plan writers face is finding data to use in their plans. Using actual data adds credibility to your business plan and increases the chance that someone will give you the funding that you need. If you are looking for information on your target market, the Census Bureau Fact Finder website is a great resource. Visit this website at factfinder.census.gov.
Using the data on the census website, you can find the size of your target market, the age distribution, facts about the community, and more. The best part is that all of this data is FREE!
To get a feel for the type of information that you can look up, enter your zip code on the first page of the website. You can see the population, the age distribution, the gender of the region, race, average household size, education, employment, etc. Much of this data will be very useful for your business plan.
Posted by Jon at August 31, 2005 10:10 AM
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I live at 22541 Commonwealth in Seattle. Been up here before?
Posted by: Mike Flacklestein at July 31, 2006 2:43 PM