1. Define the geography before interpreting the numbers
Highland Park is a city in Wayne County, Michigan. The 2020–2024 ACS 5-year population estimate for the city is 8,628, with a margin of error of 24. That is geographic and population context—not evidence of legal demand, search volume, competition, lead volume or revenue. A dashboard review should therefore distinguish Highland Park from Wayne County, the wider metropolitan area and the rest of Michigan. Those places are not interchangeable reporting labels. If your firm serves people beyond the city, the geographic questions should be explicit: which locations are tracked, which location appears on a lead record, and whether a city label describes a search, a caller, an address or a matter.
Recommended approach
Ask Bosseo to show how city, county, metropolitan and statewide data would be separated. Decide which geographic definitions your firm will use when reviewing rankings, calls, leads and matters. Do not treat the Highland Park population estimate as a forecast of business.
