Property Finder provides answers

The Escondido GIS (Geographic Information System) maintains a website called Property Finder. Among many applications, some yet to be realized, are those mainly intended to allow users to search for available retail, commercial, office, and industrial property in Escondido. If you are a realtor with Escondido listings or a property owner with vacant (non-residential) space for lease or sale, you can apply for a login and password and post available properties to the searchable database.

Some of the unrealized applications:

If you're thinking of renting an apartment and you'd like to see if it is on a busy street click in the box in front of "Average Daily Traffic Counts (2004)" in the left hand menu. Traffic numbers will appear in yellow boxes when you search for that address.

If you'd like to see the percentage of renter occupied versus owner occupied homes within a .5 mile radius of a home you're looking to buy, or want to see the percentage of households with five or more occupants because of parking fears, run a demographic report.

If you'd like to be hired to work for a television sound crew, but thought you'd have to move to Los Angeles, you can find employment information clicking on the "Demographics" search tab, and selecting the report titled "Business and Workforce" from the dropdown box. In 2005 there were 53 people who worked in the motion picture industry living here in Escondido. You don't have to move.