How employment-node mapping and walkability isochrones can guide site decisions

Sep 23, 2026

TIP Strategies demonstrated employment-node mapping and pedestrian-access isochrones that combine block-level LODES data and OpenRouteService travel-time layers to show where jobs and residents concentrate around candidate sites.

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Reece Neathery of TIP Strategies explained the firm’s Employment Nodes tool, which compares jobs-per-acre and residents-per-acre at the Census block level to identify concentrations of employment and residential centers. "This really helps us answer the question, where are employment and residential centers concentrated?" Neathery said.

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