Economic intelligence
for mountain communities.
High Country Analytics builds regional economic intelligence for the chambers, tourism boards, municipalities, and partner agencies of the Mountain West — so your board, your partners, and the public can read from the same page.
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The practice
Mountain communities are not islands. Labor sheds, commuter flows, housing markets, and visitor traffic cross municipal lines every day — but the data that describes those flows lives in a dozen federal and state portals, each with its own geography, vintage, and access pattern.
HCA consolidates that working knowledge into shared, durable references — designed as civic infrastructure: comprehensive, easy to host, accessible to non-technical readers, and built to outlive any static report.
Read about the practiceFive practice areas, one regional method.
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Regional Economic Atlases
Decades of federal, state, and partner data, consolidated into one interactive site — no logins, no subscriptions.
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Visitor, Lodging & Tourism
STR, AirDNA, lodging-tax, and visitor-profile data assembled into occupancy, ADR, length-of-stay, and origin-market reports.
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Geospatial & Mobility
LEHD flows, Placer.ai mobility, and traffic counts turned into commute maps, downtown patterns, and gateway analyses.
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Economic Impact & Sales Tax
Sector-level sales-tax trends, leakage studies, GDP, wages, and consumer-expenditure work — methodology transparent enough to defend in a public meeting.
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Stakeholder Dashboards
Recurring KPI snapshots and annual impact reports built to replace manually populated spreadsheets.
See the kind of thing we build.
A self-contained, interactive regional visitation report — three views, real interactivity, every figure synthetic and illustrative. Built to show the structure and feel of an HCA deliverable, not official statistics.
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Built from inside
the problem.
Jake came for the mountains — for snowboarding, mountain biking, and the kind of life you can only build in a mountain town. He started out at REI and wound up where he is now: the Economic Development Specialist for the City of Glenwood Springs.
HCA is the practice that grew out of that experience — out of rebuilding the same ad-hoc spreadsheets every time a board, coworker, or developer asked a question that should already have an answer.
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