The University of Virginia's Geospatial and Statistical Data Center provides a query-based system for obtaining a wide variety of federal data by state and area, including REIS, County Business Patterns, and historical Census Data. The Regional Economic Conditions site produced by the FDIC is high value added. Not only does it provide access to employment, income, housing, and real estate data for states, counties and metropolitan area, it offers tools to build maps, tables, and charts. The unique aspect of this site is that data are disaggregated by central cities and suburbs. The site will create spreadsheet files of data on-line as well as graphing data in your internet browser.
Registered users can generate forecasts from historical data.
The Association of University Business and Economic Researchers is one of those organizations we suggest everybody get to know. Every state has its own experts and specialized data collections.