Pew Philadelphia Research and Policy Initiative

The Initiative seeks to inform discussions on important issues facing the city and the region and to provide policymakers and other decision-makers with data, analysis, and examples of promising practices that may help them address key challenges.

1 dataset

Philadelphia Business Dashboard

This interactive series of charts and maps was developed to track Philadelphia’s progress toward recoving from the COVID-19 pandemic though business activity metrics. The dashboard is updated on an ongoing basis and covers data from March 2020 to the present. The interactive application includes eleven thematic areas:

  • Delinquency on Bills
  • Financial Stability
  • Balance of Credit Accounts
  • Work Locations by Sector
  • Bankruptcy Filings
  • Jobs by Sector
  • Jobs by Establishment Size
  • Wages by Sector
  • Consumer Spending at Small Businesses
  • Pre-pandemic City and Zip Area Profiles
  • Pre-pandemic Business Owner Profiles

The data can be filtered based on industry, location, size, and gender.