The Group Quarters Facilities data layer contains information on both institutional and non-institutional group quarters facilities in Southeast Michigan. According to the Census Bureau, group quarters are places where people live or stay, in a group living arrangement, that is owned or managed by an entity providing housing and/or services for the residents. This is not a typical household-type living arrangement and the people living in group quarters are usually not related to one another. It is important to monitor the group quarters population because they are sampled as individuals within Census Bureau surveys, rather than as members of a household unit, and less information is reported.Group Quarters TypesInstitutional group quarters provide supervised custody or care to inmates or residents. This includes correctional facilities, assisted living, nursing homes, and memory care.Non-institutional group quarters house residents who are able or eligible to be in the labor force. This includes student and military housing, group homes, residential treatment centers, and religious housing.Group Quarters Facility CountsData on group quarters facilities is decentralized, and collected from a variety of federal and state agencies, educational institutions, industry associations, and private sources. Group Quarters Facility AttributesSEMCOG maintains a limited number of attributes on the group quarters facility points data layer. Please note that because a single building may contain group quarters of different types, there will be cases where there is multiple records for a single structure. Table GQ.1 list the current attributes of the buildings dataset: Table GQ.1Group Quarters Dataset AttributesFIELDTYPEDESCRIPTIONCOUNTY_IDIntegerFIPS county code.CITY_IDIntegerSEMCOG code identifying the municipality, or for Detroit, master plan neighborhood, in which the building is located.BUILDING_IDLong IntegerUnique identifier number of each building from SEMCOG’s buildings layer.IDENTIFIERVarchar(20)Unique identifier assigned by a government agency in their own systems.Most often this field is NULL.FAC_NAMEVarchar(50)Name of the group quarters facility record.FAC_ADDRESSVarchar(50)Mailing address of the group quarters facility record.FAC_CITYVarchar(50)Name of legal jurisdiction in which the facility is located.FAC_ZIPCODELong IntegerFive digit zip code of the mailing address of the group quarters facility.LICENSED_BEDSIntegerCount of licensed beds OR maximum capacity of the group quarters facility.RESIDENT_COUNTIntegerCount of residents in the facility in spring 2020.GQ_CODEIntegerGroup quarters facility type classification code.Please see below.Group Quarters Classification CodeSEMCOG’s group quarters classification codes are adopted from the coding system established by the U.S. Census Bureau to classify group quarters in their data products. There are several Census codes not used by SEMCOG as our region does not contain those types of facilities, and one additional code added for a different type of facility. More information on Census group quarters codes, including full descriptions of each classification, can be found on the Census Bureau’s web site. SEMCOG classifies student housing differently than the Census, separating dorms from fraternities and sororities regardless of whether they are located on campus. In addition, student cooperative housing is added as an additional type due to the large number of such buildings in Ann Arbor. In addition, Census counts of homeless persons are distributed to government buildings in the largest community in each county and the City of Detroit to ensure their inclusion in the data layer.Table GQ.2Group Quarters Classification CodesGQ CODEDESCRIPTIONPRIMARY SOURCE102Federal PrisonsU.S. Bureau of Prisons103State PrisonsMichigan Department of Corrections104County JailsMichigan Department of Corrections201Juvenile Group HomesMichigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs202Juvenile Residential Treatment CentersU.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admin203Juvenile Correctional FacilitiesMichigan Department of Corrections301Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing HomesU.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid andMichigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs401Adult Mental Hospitals and Psychiatric Units in HospitalsMichigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs402Pediatric Mental Hospitals and Psychiatric Units in HospitalsMichigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs403Palliative Care such as Hospice, Traumatic Brain Injury, etc.Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs404Special Psychiatric PopulationsMichigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs405Neonatal Intensive Care UnitsMichigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs501College Student DormitoriesIndividual College Housing Department502Fraternities and SororitiesPublic Research503College Student Cooperative HousingPublic Research701Transitional Housing SheltersPublic Research and U.S. Census Bureau702Homeless SheltersPublic Research and U.S. Census Bureau801Adult Foster HomesMichigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs802Adult Residential Treatment CentersU.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admin904Religious Quarters and Domestic Violence SheltersMichigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs