About Our Project
The rise of wealth inequality between people and places represents one of the great challenges of the 21st century. Our mission is to develop public data resources enabling the tracking of the causes, consequences, and trajectories of wealth inequality across North America. The GEOWEALTH project has built the first spatial database of wealth inequality in the United States from the 1960s to the present day. Our approach leverages machine learning, spatial computation, and public-use microdata to generate fine-scale estimates of local wealth levels and distributions.
Our goal is to support data-driven equity research, accessible visualization, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Abou Our Team
We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers specializing in geography, geographic information science, urban planning, and economics. The core team is a collaboration between the University of Toronto and Arizona State University.