The National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW) is one of the very best resources for parents moving to a new neighborhood. The website is free and provides information on registered sex offenders in the area. Not only can you look up your current neighborhood to check for nearby offenders, but you can also investigate any potential new neighborhoods before relocating to an area. This tool is particularly helpful for those with children, as the website allows parents to access important information on any child predators in the neighborhood, and includes a photo of the offender. The website also provides important tips and advice on protecting yourself and your family from potential victimization. To utilize this tool more easily, download the NSOPW mobile app on your smartphone.
Similar to NSOPW, Family WatchDog is a website that helps locate registered sex offenders in a neighborhood. The service is free and easy-to-use. All you have to do is enter the address of a potential new home. Family WatchDog’s map will mark the home addresses of registered sex offenders in the area. Additional photos and conviction information are also provided. I also recommend signing up on the website to receive Family WatchDog’s notification service. The website alerts subscribers as soon as a convicted sex offender registers an address in their neighborhood.
NeighborhoodScout
NeighborhoodScout is a fast and easy way to find information on any neighborhood in the country. Once you type in an address or city, the website directs you to a map of the neighborhood with information on real estate trends, unique characteristics, neighbors and demographics, school ratings and transportation information. The website also offers more in-depth neighborhood crime data, however, you may need to subscribe to the website for access. The data includes:
In addition, NeighborhoodScout provides plenty of useful information in its articles and listicles regarding neighborhood safety. From “the safest cities in America” to the “most dangerous cities in America,” you can learn which places to consider making your new home and which places to avoid – all on their blog.
Crime Spot
Crime Spot has both city and county crime maps showing crime incident data down to neighborhood crime activity - crime alerts and reports.
City-Data
City Data collects and analyzes data from a variety of government and private sources, creating detailed, informative profiles for every city in the United States. From crime rates to weather patterns, you’ll find the data youre looking for on City-Data.com.
For other research such as potential flood risk, land contamination, site pollution, etc try this website: http://www.texascoastalatlas.com/buyersbewhere/
NeighborhoodScout
NeighborhoodScout gives you nationally comparable school rankings based on test scores, so you can directly compare the quality of schools in any location. In fact, our nationally comparable school ratings are patented. We also give you the ability to put in the school quality and class size you want, and the search engine will return the best neighborhoods for education in a list and map your results to the neighborhood level.
GreatSchools
GreatSchools Summary Rating offers expanded information about important aspects of school quality — including student access to advanced courses, student progress information, and equity data to help parents see whether or not all students are being served similarly.
Moving.com
Moving.com school ratings are easy to navigate and put together. Type in the zip code or city and state of your new home and then choose whether you want to filter information by district or by school. Well pull the school report information most important to you from our database of nearly 90,000 public and private schools serving grades kindergarten through 12th grade. And, the GreatSchools rating on a scale of 1-10 gives you a handy way to rate a school at a glance.
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