Information about small areas such as census tracts, wards, cities, counties, etc., should be available to the consumer in a compact readable form. To meet the problem of multitudinous tables in large expensive volumes, the method described below was devised for the analysis and publication of data concerning the neighborhoods of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. By using punched card procedures, making use of summary cards, machine multiplication and other techniques, a set of cards was prepared containing the social characteristics of each area and including percentile rankings identifying the relative position of each area for a particular characteristic. The statistical tables were reproduced directly from the listing sheets. Instead of repeating identical heading stubs for each of the tables, one set of stubs was printed on overlapping tab cards bound to the right side of the book. This alone makes for a most efficient use of paper and reduces the size and cost of the books. This method of analyzing and presentation can be applied to data for cities, counties, and metropolitan areas, as well as to small areas within cities.