LOCI® models the true fiscal impact of any project on data specific to your community — your tax digest, budgets, and commuting patterns — projecting new revenues, real public costs, and the net return on every incentive over as much as 25 years.
Fiscal impact analysis only makes sense when the numbers are specific to your community. LOCI® is built on community-specific data — your tax digest, your budgets, your commuting patterns — so the answer you hand a board, a council, or a company is unique to your situation.
LOCI® was built to level the playing field — to give local leadership a way to know whether the impacts a prospect touts are real. It weighs new revenues against new service costs on data specific to your community, and returns the net figure that actually drives the decision.
Local demographics, tax structures, millage, and actual local-government budgets — not national averages dropped onto your map.
New revenues and new service costs, modeled together — so the result is a true net figure, not a one-sided benefit headline.
Forecast the change in local revenues and expenditures year by year across the full life of a new or expanding firm.
Add monetary incentives and abatements at runtime and see exactly how the package changes the net fiscal result before you commit.
A guided workflow lets users without advanced degrees run all but the most complex analyses — and understand the answer.
Compare scenarios, solve for break-even, and export a full workbook or a designed one-page infographic for the meeting and the record.
LOCI® guides you through the analysis — no spreadsheet wrangling, no black box. Just the inputs that matter and a result you can stand behind.
Pick your city, county, or school district profile. LOCI® loads its specific demographics, tax structure, and budgets.
Enter the jobs, payroll, and property investment — plus any incentive or abatement you're weighing.
LOCI® projects revenues and costs across every affected jurisdiction and returns the net fiscal result.
Compare scenarios, find break-even, and export a clean report or infographic for the decision-makers.
Every analysis pairs a community profile with a project profile. The community data is entered once and refreshed annually; create project profiles with every deal.
The specific fiscal fabric of the city, county, or school district you're analyzing — updated about once a year.
The new or expanding firm. At minimum: jobs, payroll, and investment — with room for far more detail.
Originally developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology, LOCI® is now owned and supported by the Economic Impact Group, LLC. It was completely redesigned, rebuilt, and made more robust in 2026.
“LOCI® results are presented in a way that companies understand, providing them with assurance that local governments can fulfill their commitments while continuing to be a high-quality place where employees want to live.”
Licensed by economic development agencies, chambers, development authorities, and local governments throughout the United States.
Weigh incentive requests and development proposals with numbers your council and citizens can trust.
Negotiate from a position of evidence and show the community the real return on every deal.
Bring fiscal impact in-house — quantify the case for a project in minutes instead of outsourcing it.
Support the communities they serve — modeling the fiscal case for the development and expansion projects they help bring to the table.
“Nationally recognized experts in local fiscal impact analysis — and the creators of LOCI®, the gold standard in the field.”
For over 30 years, EIG has helped governments, investors, and communities measure the net benefit of development. LOCI® is the software distillation of that work — the same rigor that has served state legislatures and development authorities across the country, made usable by the leaders who need the answer.
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