[aantix]

I genuinely wish there was a map where you could see how many kids and their age groups are in a given neighborhood.

Our current house is great, but there aren't many kids in the neighborhood.

I understand this is sensitive information, so it probably doesn't exist.

But choosing a neighborhood with other families that are in a similar life experience is kind of hard..

Especially considering it seems that kids play outside much less, so that's less of a signal.

[silisili]

In my experience, age of homes in the neighborhood approximately equals age of kids in the neighborhood, +- a few years. And that makes sense if you think of who is typically buying houses en masse as a group - new families. Now, I don't live somewhere like SF of NY where people cycle in and out, more cities of various sizes in the midwest and south.

My first house was built in the 40's. A few original owners existed, along with second owners. I noticed I guess people don't tend to move often. There were hardly any kids in the neighborhood.

Next house was built in 2009(this would have been 2018ish), and the neighborhood was packed full of kids.

Next house was built in the 80s. A lot of original owners, again, few kids.

Next house was built in 2012, this would have been 2021 - tons of kids

Next house built in mid 90s. This was 2022. Almost everyone in the neighborhood was the original owner, very few kids.

So, if my theory holds, if you want to find a neighborhood with a lot of kids, buy a midrange house in a ~5 year old neighborhood.

(and yes, I realize I've moved a lot).

[diggan]

> I genuinely wish there was a map where you could see how many kids and their age groups are in a given neighborhood.

Maybe your local city/state/county/country government has a "Open Data" portal where they publish stuff like that? Barcelona for example has a pretty extensive Open Data collection (https://opendata-ajuntament.barcelona.cat/en) where you'd be able to find data like that (probably not ready made graphs/maps though), and probably also averaged data about how many people live in the households of a neighborhood, so you could extrapolate for families, etc.

[timita]

If you are based in the UK, there is https://xploria.co.uk. Click/tap on any location on the map and you get a lot of information about the place, inclusive of generations, what percentage of families, singles, etc, schools within travel timw, and so on. Disclosure: I built this web app.

[ultrafez]

This is very cool - I haven't seen anything like it before. I've spent about half an hour noseying at places I've lived or considered living, fascinating. The view of changing house prices is something that I haven't seen presented in this way either.

Thanks for building it and thanks for sharing.

[timita]

Thanks for the kind words! The prototype was launched in 2013, you'd think the world would have caught up since :D. The platform underneath allows far more advanced functionality, so stick around, there will be many more usable (and useful) features in the near term.

[aantix]

Is this based on census data?

[timita]

Yes, although not yet updated to the one of 2021 (2022 in Scotland).

The main page has references to all data sources.

[venusenvy47]

For younger age groups, you could search for how many elementary schools are in the region. Our town has a lot of these schools, because people don't want to be sending their young children far away. Generally it's not until high school age where the students might have to travel farther from home to school.

[robhh]

That's exactly what I'm also looking for. I've been looking for a house in both Canada and the U.S. and for Canada there are some house search websites that show demographic census data for each neighborhood. For the U.S. I haven't seen anything comparable. I don't even know if this type of demographic data at the necessary granularity would be available publicly?