Put the source to work.
Understand a local district through checked venue membership and reported activity. Clear boundaries help you explain annual and quarterly changes without confusing one receipts measure with total visitor spending.
Why it matters
A place-based comparison needs clear boundaries. Knowing which venues belong to a district makes the local story easier to check.
Which places belong in your local story?
Imagine a visiting delegation asks how a local visitor district is doing. Before comparing activity, you need to know which venues belong to the district. A clear boundary makes a local comparison understandable. A nearby venue may serve the same visitors while falling outside the measured area.
This source connects checked venue membership with district-level mixed-beverage receipts and historical trends. Those receipts describe one kind of reported activity. They do not measure all visitor spending or total business revenue. Use the tourism pillar to connect the local example with a wider visitor-market question.
Three steps you can take
- Name the district boundary and the period you are comparing.
- Describe the receipts measure in plain language and keep unresolved venue locations out of assigned district totals.
- Use the same membership and reporting rules across periods, or explain changes that affect the trend.
Read the source: National Data System: place-based intelligence. This reference explains the source or research context; the inventory figures below come from the reviewed NDS package.
Know what you are looking at.
- Spatially certified venue members
- 379
- Top-venue records
- 25
- Districts with receipt ranks
- 8
- Districts with no current reporting
- 3
- Unresolved geocoding candidates
- 278
Use these figures to understand the package reviewed on October 20, 2026. The results section below tells you which comparisons you can explore here and which still need source work. A source guide is different from a complete table of published observations.
How to use the evidence
Use the governed membership and publication tables with their validation records.
Label the geography as the broader River Improvement Overlay district system and identify the measure as reported mixed-beverage receipts.
Available results and rankings
- The reviewed package includes local annual and quarterly trends, recovery measures, 25 top-venue records, and district receipt ranks.
- Governed membership and publication tables have validation records. The full local publication tables are not imported into this website.
Coverage and limits
- The coverage is broader than a single informal River Walk boundary.
- Mixed-beverage receipts are not total venue revenue or complete visitor spending. Unresolved geocoding candidates must not be assigned to districts without a verified link.
Other source guides
Commercial Diplomacy Index™ · National Data System · Source and method guide · October 20, 2026