Find underserved neighborhoods in your city

The job, step by step

1. 1

   Count what is missing

   Missing (gap analysis)

   Pick a kind of place. The map shows how many each hex would have at the city's rate for the people who live there, minus how many it has.

2. 2

   Compare with the city average

   Fair share (Location Quotient)

   Places per 1 000 residents against the city's rate. Below 1× means fewer than the city average.

3. 3

   Separate a pattern from noise

   Clusters (Getis-Ord Gi*)

   Cold spots that pass a significance test mark the stretches that are genuinely quiet, not just one empty hex.

4. 4

   See who lives there

   Population & age · Affluence

   Map age, households and income from each country's census on the same hexes, or put a gap and income on one Cross two map.

5. 5

   Cite it and share it

   Answer pages · Copy link

   Each city's questions-answered page names the source, the census year and what an answer cannot say. Copy link and Export map (PNG) give you the live map and the picture.

Try it on a real map

Each button opens the example in the map app, ready to change.

Real answers, with sources

Questions like these, already answered for real cities. Each answer names its source and census year, says what it cannot show, and opens on the live map.

Why measure against the city's own rate

A raw count punishes quiet neighborhoods and flatters busy ones. Missing compares each hex with what the city's own rate predicts for the people who live there, so a gap means fewer than this city usually provides, not fewer than somewhere else.

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What this can't tell you

• MapBees counts mapped places. It doesn't know opening hours, capacity, prices or who a place serves.
• Each figure is an estimate for its hex, from one census year per country.
• It shows where a gap is, not why it is there.