Children per school, block by block

What it does

Every quarter: how many children live in every block of your city and how many schools serve them, the most crowded first, with a note from xMap AI, saved to a sheet and mapped.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Toronto, count who lives around, count the schools, primary schools and kindergartens within 2 km of each, work out new fields, sort them by children_per_school and keep the top 20, write a report with xMap AI, then add row in Google Sheets, show them on a map and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Schools fill up where families move. This flow shows where the next school is needed.

Who it is for

Government & smart cities. Municipalities, agencies and city teams planning services and keeping residents safe and informed. Every use case for government & cities

Best use cases

• An education department
• A private school group
• A city planner

What each run gives you

• A table in a sheet
• A map

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 480 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 8 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 10 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
3. People in every block of the cityxMap data · DemographicsWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).
4. Schools around each blockxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
5. Children per schoolLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
6. Best 20 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
7. Write the capacity notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
8. Save the tableApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
9. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
10. Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.

Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.

Use it now

Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.