As part of our ongoing effort to study the State of Ohio, we decided to analyze crime rates by county for ten different crimes: aggravated assault, arson, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, murder, property crime, rape, robbery and violent cr...Read More
This week, in part three of our study of Ohio crime rates, we took a look at burglary. Also known as "breaking and entering" or less commonly, "housebreaking," burglary has been defined by the FBI as "the unlawful entry of a structure to com...Read More
Columbus, Ohio has long touted it’s accessibility to the American market as a key selling feature to attract new business into the area. Even if this was true in the past, given significant population sh...Read More
Larceny has been defined by the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program as "the unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession of constructive possession of another. A larceny can include anything from s...Read More
Murder has been defined in US FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Data as the "willful (nonnegligent) killing of one human by another." The aforethought is what distinguishes murder from other forms of homicide such as manslaughter. In the FBI...Read More
Part two of our study of crime rates in Ohio focuses on Arson. Arson is defined as the willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle, or other personal pr...Read More
The FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program has taken an in-depth look at Motor Vehicle Theft and has defined it as "the theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle" which is a "self-propelled vehicle that runs on land surfaces and not on rails....Read More
This week in our crime blog we will be looking at a more general crime rate across the state: property crime. The property crime data includes arson, burglary, larceny theft and motor vehicle theft, all of which have been studied in previous...Read More
This week we are looking at sales tax across the United States, and from the research we did, we can see the changes in the last 12 years with some states increasing their sales tax and others decreasing the rate.<...Read More
Rape is defined in US criminal law as a type of sexual assault, usually involving sexual intercourse, which was initiated by one or more people against a person without that person's consent. This act can be achieved in a variety of ways, in...Read More
Just recently, Ohio’ Legislatures passed HB 153 that repeals Ohio’s estate tax in 2013. This changes the current story of estate tax across the United States as we see in the next few maps. Many people ...Read More
Robbery has been defined by the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program as "the taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting th...Read More
In our final crime blog, we will be taking a look at violent crime rates across the US from 1974 through 2008. Violent crime is defined by the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data as a combination of four major (and previously studied here...Read More
This week we decided to take a close look at sales tax and wanted to focus on Ohio. Last month we looked at the sales tax rate across the U.S. (you can see that blog posting here: http://www.threesc...Read More
For the past few months, we’ve been posting blogs on taxes, crime and weather. Therefore, we thought that this week we’d blog about football! When it comes to sports, fans can go on for hours about the ...Read More
As part of our work to better understand the economic growth of Ohio, Three Scale has analyzed the Inc 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in the US to see how the state stacks up in comparison to rest of the nation. Each year, In...Read More
A few months ago, we published a blog about the population within 500 miles of select metropolitan areas (Click here for blog). We found Columbus to be ranked #1 in terms of population within 500 miles at 145,445...Read More
Redistricting is a process that is mandated every ten years, in every state, counting the number of citizens living in the United St...Read More
Last month we posted our first blog for the entire tax map series. The first blog focused on the income tax rates that the states collect. When we l...Read More
In late 2012, Columbus will be opening a new Hollywood Casino on the west side of town. The project will hopefully be a catalyst for a struggling area. In addition to the direct jobs created by construction and operation of the casino,...Read More
Casino gambling and new casino construction has been a significant economic topic across the US as a source of tax revenue for cities for the better part of two decades now. A large number of journal articles and studies have been written on...Read More
As 2011 nears to a close, a question that has come up is whether or not unemployment has gone down in the state of Ohio during the 2...Read More
In the last few years, the variety of healthcare in Columbus has changed dramatically. New hospitals open,...Read More
Our last blog focused on the University System of Ohio and accounted for the public universities and their branch campuses in the state of Ohio.Read More
The University System of Ohio comprises of 14 public universities and over 20 branch campuses throughout the state of Ohio.Read More
This is an update from a previous blog post in December about whether or not unemployment has gone down in Ohio from January through October of 2011.
So how does your school in Ohio compare with others? In our fourth blog of the education blog series, we f...Read More
In our third part of our series on mapping public schools in Ohio, our focus is moves to ...Read More
What are the future prospects for our students graduating from high school? Are they going to college and ...Read More
The next blog on the multipart education blog series focuses on teachers.Read More
The Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) is a proficiency test given to all students in their sophomore year of high school throughout the state of Ohio.Read More
Where are today’s university alumni living in? In a rural township or in a major municipality? Thi...Read More
The last blog post focused on the unemployment rate across the United States. This blog...Read More
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