Interactive County Map
See manufacturing trade loss and tradable services job gains for every county, shaded on a single national view.
Explore mapGeorgetown Lab for Globalization & Shared Prosperity
Whether the American Dream is still achievable depends on the county you were born in — so we measure it, county by county.
- counties tracked
- 3,145counties tracked
- decades of data
- 3decades of data
- index refresh
- every 3 yrsindex refresh
What ADAPT does
Four tools built for the people making local economic policy.
Peer County Comparison
Every county gets an auto-suggested peer with a similar shock profile — or choose your own comparison.
Compare countiesPolicy What-If Simulator
Move one lever, such as education spending, and watch a county's projected index and ranking respond.
Run a scenarioInsights & Case Studies
Short, sourced write-ups on the places where local policy measurably changed the opportunity picture.
Coming soon“For too long we have measured national prosperity in aggregates. ADAPT insists on the only measure that matters to a family: whether opportunity is within reach where they actually live.”
Start with your county.
Filter by state or region, compare against a peer county, and test a policy change in under a minute.