Geographic Center of Businesses

Intro 

A real-world question that a business might ask, "Where is the weighted center of my locations?"

 Here are the locations for two businesses that are growing and wanted to know where the center of the stores are, by the weighted center, in order to build their headquarters and distribution centers in order to serve their locations with the most efficiency. 

Methods 

The companies were weighted zip code, not by physical address. This was all completed in ArcGIS pro.

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The final result was this map. 

Discussion 

While they could have asked to build in the center by distance, they wanted to weigh the center to serve the most locations in the most efficient matter. 

For the red company that meant the center was in Minnesota Lake, Minnesota (Near Albert Lea, Minnesota), they requested this location as most of their locations were within short driving distance. 

For the blue company, it was a similar story, but most of their work was centered around Manteno, Illinois. They requested this location as most of their locations were within short driving distance.

  Limitations

One limitation was that some of the zip codes geocoded in Germany, not in the USA. But once it was realized it was fixed. 

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Esri ArcGIS Pro

Google for finding zipcodes