LibGuides: ENGL 210: Business Writing: Wichita, Sedgwick County, & State Resources

City of Wichita Resources

City of Wichita
The City's homepage has a lot of information available and can be really helpful, depending on the topic of your proposal. Locate information on city offices and services, demographics, and other state and local resources.
City Budget
Municiple Code
A library of city codes and ordinances.
Wichita Open Data Portal
Wichita-Sedgwick County Planning
USD 259 WIchita Public Schools
Center for Economic Development and Business Research (CEDBR)
Wichita and Kansas focused economic research initiated by Wichita State University and the W. Frank Barton School of Business. Home of the Kansas Economic Outlook and the Wichita Economic Outlook.

Sedgwick County Website
Includes a section on "Doing Business" that can contain helpful information.
Sedgwick County Budget
State of Kansas Government
Helpful for finding out about state departments and organizational structure.
Kansas Statutes
Online listing of Kansas Statutes, courtesy of the Kansas State Legislature.
Kansas Business Center

Many of these freely available government sites can be utilized to gather targeted market research for the Wichita Metro area.

American Factfinder (U.S. Census Bereau)
Search for Wichita, KS or do a "Guided Search" for specific information about area population, housing, and/or business & industry.
Economic Census
Browse economic data by industry, zip code, and more.
Kansas Statistical Abstract
Useful data and charts.
Kansas Department of Labor
Labor Market Information Services
Policy Map
Mapped data relating to demographics, housing, income, crime, mortgages, health, jobs, manufacturing, supermarket access, and more. Includes data sets from over 65 public and proprietary sources. (Requires a free account to view some data)
City-Data.com, Wichita KS
Visual representations of Census and other demographic information.