Market Data Sources

Corbis blends official U.S. statistics, third-party indicators ingested into the metro pipeline, and on-demand economic series (FRED). Coverage, update cadence, and geography vary by dataset—not every metric exists for every market or date.

Structured metro intelligence is served from Supabase-backed tables (cbsa_market_data, time_series, national_macro, data_freshness). getMarketData, getMarketTrends, and getNationalMacro (and MCP equivalents) reflect that stack; fredSearch / fredSeriesBatch query the FRED API directly for additional series.

Below, each line matches source families wired in tool schemas and registry copy (including time_series source filters such as bls_employment, zillow, cfpb_hmda, and others).

Labor market

• BLS (employment & unemployment) — Metro employment levels, job change, unemployment rate, and related labor-market snapshots (pipeline source: bls_employment).
• Census Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) — Industry-level hires, separations, job turnover, and earnings dynamics where the series is populated (census_qwi).

Housing and real estate

• Census Building Permits Survey (BPS) — New-construction and supply-pipeline signals (permits, composition, trends).
• FHFA House Price Index (HPI) — House-price movement and growth comparisons.
• HUD Fair Market Rents (FMR) — Annual rent benchmarks for affordability comparisons.
• Zillow — Home-value index (ZHVI), observed rent (ZORI), inventory, days-to-pending, price-cut share, and sale-to-list metrics in metro snapshots and trends (zillow).
• Housing & affordability (pipeline) — getMarketTrends also accepts source filters housing and affordability for longer metro histories that sit alongside BPS, FHFA, HUD, and related supply or rent-pressure context.

Demographics

• Census Population Estimates Program (PEP) — Population levels and growth.
• American Community Survey (ACS) — Income, rent, household counts, commute and workforce characteristics, and related demographic context.

Macro and national benchmarks

• Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) — Macro series via fredSearch / fredSeriesBatch (CPI, Fed funds, Treasuries, GDP, mortgage and rate context, and other discoverable series).
• Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) — Regional output and income-style series carried in metro trend history (bea).
• Curated national macro (national_macro) — In-product national benchmarks such as real GDP, CPI, key Treasury yields, the 30-year mortgage rate, and the Fed funds rate; use getNationalMacro for this table (separate from ad hoc FRED pulls).

Business and industry

• County Business Patterns (CBP) — Establishment counts, employment, payroll, and industry mix (census_cbp).
• Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) — Detailed industry employment and wage series (bls_qcew).

Financial, lending, and hazard risk

• FDIC — Banking and deposits-oriented context where metrics are present in the pipeline (fdic).
• CFPB Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) — Mortgage origination and lending-condition signals aggregated for metros (cfpb_hmda).
• FEMA — Natural-hazard and disaster-risk indicators used in risk snapshots (fema).

Migration and tax data

• IRS Statistics of Income (SOI) — Tax-return-based migration and income-flow perspectives (irs_soi).

Airport connectivity

• Airport activity metrics — Where data exists, the product can surface airport-oriented measures (for example enplanements per capita, year-over-year change, national rank, and hub classification). The app tools do not expose a separate “FAA database” integration by name; treat these as airport connectivity metrics in the CRE snapshot, not a claim about a specific federal publisher in code.

How Corbis uses these sources

Corbis combines the above to power:

• metro snapshots, peer comparisons, and rankings
• multi-year getMarketTrends history (with optional source filters matching the pipeline)
• national overlays via getNationalMacro plus broader macro exploration via FRED tools
• optional web search (searchRealEstate / internet search) for context beyond the structured tables—domain allowlists may include agency sites, but structured CBSA metrics come from the pipeline described here

When you need exact figures, rely on the metric labels, source hints, and dates shown in tool output; coverage gaps are expected for some metros and series.