Easy-access stats on metropolitan areas, courtesy of Harvard

A wide array of indicators available (education, demographics, health, crime, poverty, housing and economic opportunities, etc.), by metropolitan area (including reports for the top 100 MSAs and all 331 MSAs) from Harvard’s School of Public Health:  www.diversitydata.org

One quibble: some of their data is a bit old. For example, for live teen births, they only have 2001-2002 data available. I believe more recent data is available from the National Center for Health Statistics.

They recently published an interesting, useful report (“Children Left Behind”) on how metropolitan areas are failing children.  Nice array of statistics included.