How do changing congressional district boundaries affect the way organizations understand and serve their communities? Congressional district lines are moving mid-decade, and that matters for anyone who measures, reports, or plans by district. Amigos Vendor Partner, PolicyMap helps libraries and researchers turn geographic and community data into meaningful insights. Their recent three-part blog series illustrates the platform’s capabilities by exploring gerrymandering and redistricting through the data, including how changing district boundaries can affect needs assessments, trend analysis, and grant reporting.
Beginning with A Deeper Look at Gerrymandering, the series explains how district lines are drawn, explores ways gerrymandering can be measured and addressed, and tracks congressional map changes in 2025 and 2026. It also highlights an important consideration for libraries, nonprofits, researchers, and other organizations: when district boundaries change, district-level data may no longer be directly comparable with information from previous years, potentially affecting needs assessments, trend analysis, and grant reporting.
PolicyMap brings together curated data and mapping tools to help users explore patterns across communities and turn geographic information into useful insights. As an Amigos vendor partner, PolicyMap is available to Amigos members at discounted pricing. Read the series to see PolicyMap in action, then contact Amigos at mds@amigos.org to learn about how to put PolicyMap into work at your library.