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Can someone suggest sources of inexpensive or free data for maps. I am particularly interested in housing values at either the census tract or zip code level.

Also, is it possible to show census tract and/or zip code boundaries on a map?

Thanks.

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MapPoint can plot data by census tract and zipcode. For free housing data, you will probably have to get that from the US Federal Government. The Census Bureau is a good place for a lot of demographics, but someone like the Housing Agency would be the place for house prices.

Note that you will probably have to do a little bit of work to get the data into a usable form. Eg. when I've worked with US Census summary data, it has been formatted in a fixed character position format reminiscent of Fortran or Cobol.

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