1. Start with the geography your firm actually serves
Lower Merion is a municipal-township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. That distinction matters when you decide what a location field should mean. A dashboard should not silently treat township residents, Montgomery County inquiries, Pennsylvania searches and a firm’s service area as interchangeable. During review, ask how the system represents a caller who lives in Lower Merion but asks about a matter elsewhere, or a caller outside the township seeking a service your firm accepts there. The Census population estimate is useful for defining the place under discussion, not for forecasting case volume.
Recommended approach
Bring your preferred geographic definitions to the consultation. Decide whether reporting should distinguish Lower Merion, Montgomery County and the wider Pennsylvania service area, and document which location should be attached to a call, form, intake or matter. If the dashboard cannot express those distinctions clearly, treat that limitation as a decision factor rather than smoothing it over with a broad “local” label.
