When conducting a home search, the ability to draw a custom polygon map can be a useful tool.  After you've done that, you may want to draw that same map on your stats solution to understand the economics of that area.  But that's a mistake.  At a very high level, the goal of searching for a home is to narrow down to only homes which meet the specific criteria of your clients.  Stats are the exact opposite.  For statistics to have meaning, the sample size should be larger, not smaller.  So drawing a custom map of a very specific small area essentially negates the economic value of the stats entirely.  If you want to read more about why polygons don't work well for stats, head over to our blog article on polygons.