See Where Your Students Live

The Geographic Distribution map shows how many of your students live in each ZIP code. Use it to see where your applicants come from and where to focus outreach. To open it, go to Reports and choose the Geographic Distribution card.

Admins and observers can open it, and so can advisors and assistants granted Access Admin Pages on the Team tab in Settings.

What the Map Shows

Each circle is one ZIP code. A larger circle means more students, and the color runs from blue for the fewest to red for the most, as the key in the corner, Students per ZIP Code, shows. Click a circle, or tap it on a phone, to see the ZIP code, its city and state, and how many students it holds.

The map counts the students who have a record in the program year you pick and a ZIP code on their profile. The ZIP code comes from the student's address, so a student with no ZIP code on file is not on the map. Above the map, students matched counts them and zip codes mapped counts the circles. A ZIP+4 such as 33101-1234 is placed under its 5-digit ZIP code. A ZIP code the map cannot place is counted in students matched but draws no circle. The profile and the application accept only a 5-digit ZIP code or ZIP+4. If the matched students have no ZIP code the map can place, a line says so.

Under the map, Top 10 Zip Codes lists the ZIP codes with the most students, with the city and the count for each. When fewer than ten are mapped, the heading says how many, for example Top 4 Zip Codes.

The circles and the counts do not depend on the street map behind them, so they are correct even if it does not load. When TRIOPilot cannot show the street map at all, a note at the top of the map says so.

Pick the Program Year

Program Year, at the left of the filter bar, chooses the year the map counts. It opens on the current program year and lists every year from your program's earliest record to the newest, newest first. The map counts only the students with a record in the year you pick, so switching the year can change it.

Filter the Map

Every filter starts at All, which leaves it off. Pick a value to count only the students who match it. Filters add up, so a student must match every filter you set.

• Status: the student's status in the program year you picked, for example Served. With All, the map counts every status, including Pending, Inactive and Rejected.
• Entry Year: the year the student first entered your program.
• Low Income and First Generation: Yes or No, from the student's profile.
• Sex: Male or Female.
• Enrolled Postsec. (EOC programs): the student's Enrolled in Postsecondary answer for the program year: Yes, No, Unknown or Deceased.
• Diploma (EOC programs): the student's diploma answer for the program year. If your EOC program records one diploma answer for each Section IV.A line, this filter is a dropdown of checkboxes: tick one or more answers to map the students with any of them. See Run Your APR.

Other program types record their outcomes in their own APR fields, which this map does not read, so these two filters are not shown for them.

Clear, which shows how many filters are set, for example Clear 2 Filters, turns them all back to All. The Program Year stays as you set it.

To see the students behind a number, use the same conditions on the Students page. See Find and Filter Students.