Have you ever ran an analysis and it is showing as "🔓︎ Locked?" This article will explain what could cause those issues to happen, what you can do to prevent this from occurring, and how to re-run these analyses if they’re already locked.

Analyses that are very data intensive (like Sub-Market Evaluations) and analyze many market areas in close proximity to one another are typically impacted. Sub-Market Evaluations can be quite powerful; they allow you to “simulate” placing a property in different locations within a market area, and allow you to visually examine how a market area fares in a variety of metrics. Lots of market areas very close together can trigger our data protection systems, intended to prevent single-property level data extraction in the NIC MAP Vision platform.

The example below highlights the occupancies in the Raleigh market area, showing that occupancies near Cary/Apex tend to perform stronger.

You may not need to run a Submarket analysis to visualize a spread of demographics across a market area. You can also run a tract-level analysis of metrics via the Dynamic Metric Layer in Explorer. This shows each tract and its corresponding metric value.

If you’re running analyses in high density areas, make sure to reduce the size and total number of your Market Areas in Step 4 of the Analysis Wizard. If the regions are too large or too numerous, the overlapping market areas could exceed the data protection limit, and cause the analysis to be locked.

If your analysis is already locked, don’t worry! Please reach out to the Client Success Team who will review your analysis and unlock it for you if it is within the scope of the Terms of Service.