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Avenor
Planning data for every New Jersey municipality.
Parcel maps, state and federal GIS layers, housing and Census data, and reports in one place, for municipal planning staff and the public.
- StatusIn development
- 564municipal boundaries on the map, from the NJ Office of GIS
- 21counties with 2024 NJ DCA permit, demolition and construction cost data
- 3municipalities with their own data loaded
Who is behind it
Founded by Flare Digital and its partners.
Avenor is owned and developed through FPSS, a joint venture founded by Flare Digital LLC and its partners. Today it is Flare’s only product.
What Avenor does
One place for the data a planning question depends on
Planning staff answer questions that cut across parcel records, state environmental layers, Census estimates and housing reports. Avenor brings them together, with the source attached to every figure.
Map
Municipal boundaries statewide, with parcel search and parcel details, including assessment and zoning, for each municipality whose data is loaded. State and federal layers sit on top: NJDEP land use and land cover, wetlands, FEMA flood zones, historic districts and Urban Enterprise Zones.
Dashboard
Population, age, race, household income, housing tenure, cost burden and building permits, each labeled with its source table and year. Census estimates are rated by their margin of error. Data that is not available is listed with the reason, never estimated.
Data Explorer
Every dataset behind the dashboard, and the full parcel list, as tables you can search, sort and download as CSV with the source attached.
Reports
Report templates filled from a municipality’s own data, for housing element and fair share plans, master plan reexaminations and board briefings. Reports download as accessible web pages that print to tagged PDF.
How it is built
Numbers a planner can defend
Municipal staff have to stand behind what they publish. Avenor is built so they can show where each figure came from.
Every figure has a source
Each number cites the agency, table and year it came from. Values Avenor calculates itself, such as inflation-adjusted income, are labeled as its own calculation.
Missing data stays missing
When a figure is unavailable, Avenor says so and gives the reason. Every change to the data is dated in a public changelog.
Built for every municipality
Nothing in the application names a town. A municipality’s boundaries, figures and files live in its own data, so adding one is a data change rather than a new build.
Checked on every change
Every change is tested automatically against WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility rules before it can be merged, and the live site is tested every six hours.
Get in touch
Work in municipal planning?
Ask to see Avenor, or how a municipality is added. Tell us what you are working on and we will reply.