Neighborhood fact sheet template
Build a printable neighborhood sheet for your open house. We fill in nearby schools, parks, and dining from public map data; you edit it. Free, no signup.
Fill in the sheet
Type the places in, or start from an address and edit what comes back. Either way the sheet says what you would say, and you can change every line. Leave a section blank and it disappears from the page.
We will look up schools, parks, groceries, dining and nearby stations from OpenStreetMap and fill the rows in. Check them before you print: public map data is good, not perfect, and the distances are straight lines rather than drive times.
Top of the page
Schools nearby
Name the assigned schools and how far they are. Attendance boundaries move, so the sheet tells the reader to confirm with the district.
Parks and recreation
The green space people ask about on the way in: trails, playgrounds, courts, the pool, the rec center.
Groceries and errands
Where the weekly shop happens, plus the pharmacy, the hardware store, and anything open late.
Coffee and dining
The handful you would actually name if a visitor asked, not every restaurant in a three mile radius.
Getting around
The drives and the transit that decide whether a buyer keeps looking here. Say off-peak or rush hour if it matters.
Your details
Printed along the bottom, so a visitor who keeps the sheet still knows whose it is a week later.
The button opens your browser's print dialog, where Save as PDF is one of the destinations. Print in color or in black and white: the sheet is laid out so the headings and the distances stay readable either way.
Your fact sheet
One letter-size page, updating as you type. The type and spacing tighten on their own as you add rows, so everything you enter fits on the one page.
The neighborhood
Around this home
Fill in a school, a park, a store, or a drive time above and it lands here.
What this sheet leaves out, and why
Every field on this template asks for something a visitor could go and check: a school name, a park, a store, a distance, a drive time. There is no school rating, no crime score, no household income, no demographic breakdown, and no box for describing what a neighborhood is like.
That is on purpose. The Fair Housing Act prohibits steering, which means guiding a buyer toward or away from an area on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin. The language that gets agents into trouble is almost never explicit. It is the shorthand: good schools, safe, up and coming, family neighborhood, a rating out of ten. Those phrases carry a signal that a school name and a distance do not, and a printed sheet you hand out at the door is exactly the kind of thing that gets kept, forwarded, and read back to you later.
So the sheet gives a buyer the raw material and stops there. Anyone who wants to judge a school can pull the state report card, and anyone who wants to judge the neighborhood can drive it on a Tuesday evening. Those are their calls to make, and handing them the facts to make it with is a better sheet anyway.
This is a note about how the template is built, not legal advice. Your broker and your state association set the rules you actually work under, and their guidance wins over anything here.
How to use it
How to make a neighborhood fact sheet for your open house
About ten minutes, and you only do it once per neighborhood. Start from the address and edit what comes back, or type the whole thing in. Either way the page builds itself as you go.
1Name the area and the address
The neighborhood name goes across the top in large type, and the property address sits under it. If the area does not have a name people use, put the subdivision, the school attendance area, or just the street. The sheet still works.
2Fill in the places visitors actually ask about
Schools, parks, groceries and errands, coffee and dining. Press the lookup button to fill these from public map data and then correct them, or type them in yourself. Each line is a name plus a short factual detail: grades and distance for a school, what is there and how far for a park. Leave a whole section blank and it disappears from the printed page instead of leaving a hole.
3Add the drives that decide it
Getting around is the section buyers remember. Put the drives that matter in your market: downtown, the hospital, the base, the campus, the commuter rail. Say off-peak or rush hour when the difference is big, because a buyer who finds that out later feels misled.
4Put your name and your colors on it
Your name and brokerage print along the bottom edge, so a visitor who takes the sheet home still knows whose it is on Tuesday. Pick your brokerage color for the header band, or any custom color.
5Print it, or save it as a PDF
The print button opens your browser print dialog, where Save as PDF is one of the destinations. Print a stack for the entry table, and keep the PDF to send to anyone who asks about the area later.
Open House Console builds this same one-pager from an address you have already entered, next to the sign-in kiosk, the printable door sign, and the follow-up pipeline.
FAQ
Common questions
Does this look up the schools and parks for me?
It can. Put the address in and we will fill the rows from public map data, which saves the tedious part. Then read every line before you print, because an automatic list gets things wrong in ways a visitor cannot catch: a house near a boundary gets assigned the wrong school, a closed restaurant stays on the map for a year, and the five nearest places are almost never the five you would actually name. The distances are straight lines, not drive times. Treat the lookup as a first draft and your own knowledge as the edit, or skip it and type the sheet in from scratch.
Why is there no school rating and no description of the neighborhood?
Because those are the two fields that turn a fact sheet into a steering problem. The Fair Housing Act prohibits steering, which is guiding a buyer toward or away from a neighborhood on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin, and the language that causes trouble is rarely explicit. A school score or a phrase like good schools, safe, or family neighborhood can carry the same signal as the thing it stands in for. A school name and a distance do not. A buyer who wants to judge school performance can pull the state report card and reach their own conclusion, which is where that decision belongs.
Is there any household income or demographic data on it?
None, and there is no field for it. Publishing income or demographic figures keyed to one listing address, on a sheet handed to buyers standing in the house, is the clearest version of the same problem. The sheet stays on amenities, distances, and drive times, which are things any visitor can go and verify.
How much fits on one page?
Five sections, up to five rows each. The type and spacing tighten automatically as you add rows, so a sheet with two schools and one park prints in large type and a fully loaded one still lands on a single page. The cap is deliberate. A visitor reads this standing in an entryway, and the fifth coffee shop only makes the first four harder to see.
Can I use my brokerage colors?
Yes. The header band takes any color, with the major brokerage colors as one-tap presets, and the text on the band flips between white and near-black automatically so it stays readable. The layout is built to survive a black and white printer too: the headings and the distances read fine in grayscale, which is what the office printer will give you.
How do I save it as a PDF instead of printing?
Press the print button and change the destination in the dialog to Save as PDF. That works in Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox on a computer. On a phone the option is usually behind the share icon. The page is set to letter size with no margins, so what you see in the preview is what lands in the file.
Does anything I type get sent to you?
Only the address, and only if you press the lookup button. That one address goes to our server so it can ask the US Census geocoder and OpenStreetMap what is nearby, and the answer is cached for a day so the same address does not get asked twice. Everything else, every name, detail, color and the sheet itself, is built by JavaScript in this browser tab and never leaves it. There is no account, no save button, and nothing to unsubscribe from later. Closing the tab discards the sheet, so print or save the PDF before you go.
What should I actually put on it?
The answers to the questions you already get asked three times a Saturday. Which elementary school, how far is the grocery store, is there anywhere to walk the dog, how bad is the drive downtown. If you find yourself giving the same answer at every open house in that neighborhood, it belongs on the sheet.
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