Indicator Projects

Community Indicator Projects

Listed here is a small selection of indicator efforts. CIC does not claim involvement or endorse any projects, but we find these interesting and informative. Please send us links for possible inclusion and notify us of broken links at ed@communityindicators.net. Want us to include yours? Use our Community Indicator Project submittal form. You can also use that form to submit changes to an existing project. Be sure to see the winners of the annual Community Indicators Awards program by looking at our Awards page.

In addition to these indicator projects, CIC also hosts a Working Group on Integrating Community Indicators and Performance Measures. See the CI-PM section of our website for more information about the project and examples of places where Community Indicator Projects are being integrated with Performance Measures to improve the use of information in collaborative community decision-making.

Australia

• Australian Unity Wellbeing Index
• Waverley and Queanbeyan (NSW) Community Indicators NG
  
• South Australia Strategic Plan
• Sunnybank Brisbane Sustainability Indicators
  
• Victoria Community Indicators

Canada

• Banff Community Indicators
  
• Calgary Plan It (Integrated Municipal and Transportation Plan)
• Calgary's Vital Signs
• Canada Composite Learning Index
• Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators
• Greater Montreal's Vital Signs
• Greater St. John's Vital Signs
• Greater Sudbury's Vital Signs
• Measuring Up: Progress Report on the Government of Alberta Business Plan
• Medicine Hat's Vital Signs
• Ottawa's Vital Signs
• Provincial Sustainability Report for Manitoba
• Red Deer's Vital Signs
• Sault Ste. Marie Community Performance Report
• State of the Environment Report: The City of Calgary
• Thunder Bay Our Kids Count Program
• Toronto's Vital Signs
  
• Vancouver Sustainability Snapshot (Fraser Valley, Metro Vancouver and Squamish-Lillooet)
• Vancouver's Vital Signs
• Victoria's Vital Signs
• Whistler2020: Community of Whistler, BC.

Colombia

• Departamento Nacional de Planeació
  

Germany

• German System of Social Indicators

New Zealand

• Environment New Zealand, 2007

United Kingdom

• Sustainable Guernsey
• United Kingdom Sustainable Development Indicators

United States

Alaska

• Anchorage Community Indicators
• Mat-Su Community Indicators

Arkansas

• Northwest Arkansas Community Indicators Project
• Sitka Community Indicators: A Profile of Community Well-Being

Arizona

• Arizona Indicators Project
• Maricopa County Community Indicators

California

• City of Rocklin, Community Report Card
• East Bay Indicators (2007)
• Great Valley
• Healthier San Joaquin Conty Community Assessment Project
• Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network
• Kidsdata.org
• Orange County Community Indicators
• Pasadena / Altadena Quality of Life Index
• Quality of Life Indicators Project: City of Glendale
• San Diego Quality of Life
• Santa Barbara- South Coast Community Indicators NG
• Santa Cruz County Community Assessment Project
• Santa Monica Sustainable City Plan
• Sierra Nevada Wealth Index
• Southern California Association of Governments: The State of the Region
• Sustainable San Mateo
• Tuolumne County Profile: Community Indicators Project
• West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project

Colorado

• Boulder County Civic Forum-Indicators
• Boulder County Trends
• Community Facts-Denver
• Compass of Larimer County
• Englewood
• Pikes Peak United Way
• Yampa Valley Partners

Connecticut

• Connecticut Commission of Children
• Data Haven- The Information Hub of South Central Connecticut
• Human Services Council: Norwalk Community Indicators Report

Florida

• Broward County Children's Strategic Plan
• Miami-Dade Child Well Being
• One Voice for Volusia, Community Agenda Snapshot
• Community Vision, Osceola County
• Escambia County
• Hillsborough Community Atlas
• Jacksonville Quality of Life Indicators
• Ocala/Marion County Quality of Life
• Community Report Card, Osceola County, Florida
• Orlando - myregion.org
• Pinellas County
• SCOPE - Sarasota County
• South Florida - Charting the Course

Georgia

• Georgia Community Indicators

Hawaii

• Quality of Life in Hawaii
• Kauai Planning and Action Alliance

Idaho

• Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing and Community Resources in Idaho
• Idaho - statewide (Northwest Area Foundation)

Illinois

• Adams County Alliance for Building Community
• Southern Illinois Healthy Communities
• University of Chicago: Chapin Hall Center for Children

Indiana

• SAVI Central Indiana Data Source
• Welborn Baptist Foundation

Iowa

• Iowa - statewide (Northwest Area Foundation)

Kansas

• Kansas City Region Metro Outlook
• Topeka Community Resources Council, Community Trends and Indicators

Maine

• Measures of Growth in Focus 2010
• Franklin County Healthy Communities Coalition
• Maine Measures of Growth
• Measurement Impact in Practice
• State of Working Maine

Maryland

• Baltimore City Data Collaborative
• Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance
• CitiStat, City of Baltimore, Maryland

Massachusetts

• Northampton Community Indicators
• Boston Indicators Project
• Cape Cod Center for Sustainability

Michigan

• Calhoun County, Community Report Card
• Grand Rapids, Community Report Card
• Jackson County, Community Report Card
• Montcalm County, Community Report Card
• West Michigan Regional Indicators Project
• Sustainable Washtenaw

Minnesota

• Carver County Quality of Life Report
• Hennepin County Community Indicators Report (2006)
• Minnesota - statewide (Northwest Area Foundation)
• Results Minneapolis
  
• Minnesota Compass
• Minnesota Mapping
• Minnesota Milestones
• Twin Cities Compass
• Washington County Performance Measurement

Missouri

• Partnership for Children, Report Card on the Status of Greater Kansas City's Children & Youth NG
• Vision for Children at Risk, St. Louis
• Boone County Indicators 2006
• Status of Early Learning in Greater Kansas City

Montana

• Billings
• Missoula Measures
• Montana - statewide (Northwest Area Foundation)

Nebraska

• Community Services Initiatives, Lancaster County, State of Caring (Sept. 2006)

Nevada

• Truckee Meadows Tomorrow

New Hampshire

• New Hampshire's Changing Landscape

New Jersey

• Governing with the Future in Mind
  

New Mexico

• Albuquerque Progress Report
  

New York

• Community Indicators for the Greater Rochester Area
• Buffalo-Niagara State of the Region
• Long Island Index
• New York Touchstones
• New Yorkers for Parks

North Carolina

• Greensboro - GreensbOrometer

North Dakota

• North Dakota - statewide (Northwest Area Foundation)

Ohio

• Sustainable Cincinnati
• Healthy Summit 2010
• United Way of Central Ohio, What Matters
  

Oklahoma

• United Way of Central Oklahoma, Vital Signs Report

Oregon

• Oregon Progress Board 2009 Highlights
• Oregon Community Indicators Project
• Oregon - statewide (Northwest Area Foundation)
• Status of Oregon's Children - Progress Report

Pennsylvania

• Chester County Landscapes
• York Counts
• Pittsburgh Today
• Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, Regional Indicators
• Lackawanna and Luzerne County Indicators Report (2009)
• Lancaster County Community Indicators Project
• Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project
• Sustainable Pittsburgh

South Carolina

• South Carolina Indicators Project
• Spartanburg Community Indicators

South Dakota

• South Dakota - statewide (Northwest Area Foundation)

Texas

• Dallas Indicators
• Central Texas Sustainabilty Indicators
• Austin - Sustainable Community Initiative
• San Antonio Metropolitan Health District

Vermont

• Burlington Legacy Project
• Champlain Initiative: Creating Healthy Communities

Virginia

• Virginia Performs
• The Planning Council
• The Thomas Jefferson Sustainability Council

Washington

• Washington - statewide (Northwest Area Foundation)
• Whatcom County - Bellingham
• Chelan Douglas Trends
• Community Wellness Indicators, Pierce County United Way
• City of Redmond Indicators
• Cascadia Scorecard
• Community Indicators Initiative of Spokane County
• King County Indicators Initiative
• Sustainable Seattle
• South Puget Sound - Sustainable Community Roundtable
• Willapa Indicators for a Sustainable Community NG

Wisconsin

• Local Indicators for Excellence: L.I.F.E. in Fond du Lac County
• The Community Planning Council of Marathon County, Focus 2007-2009 LIFE in Marathon County: Local Indicators for Excellence
• Neighborhood Indicators for Central City Milwaukee

 Wyoming

• Sustaining Jackson Hole
  

National Level: United States

Aging

• Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics: Older Americans 2008: Key Indicators of Well-Being
• AARP's State of 50+ America
• Federal Forum on Aging Related Statistics, Older Americans Updated 2006: Key Indicators of Well-Being
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Merck Foundation's: The State of Aging and Health in America 2007

 Children

• ChildStats.gov, America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009
• Children's Defense Fund: The State of America's Children 2010
  
• Council of Chief State School Officers: State Education Indicators
• National Assessment of Educational Progress: The Nation's Report Card
• The National Center on Child Abuse Prevention Research
• Youth Indicators: Trends in the Well-Being of American Youth

 Civic Engagement

• Volunteering in America: 2010 State Trends and Rankings in Civic Life

Economic

• Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress
• Redefining Progress: The Genuine Progress Indicator

Environmental

• Environmental Sustainability Index
• Northern Forest Wealth Index: Exploring a Deeper Meaning of Wealth
• The State of the Chesapeake Bay and its Watershed
• The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, The State of the Nation's Ecosystems

 Health

• Department of Health and Human Service's "Healthy People 2010"
• Department of Health and Human Service's "Healthy People 2020"

 Science and Engineering

• National Science Foundation's Science and Engineering Indicators 2010

Global Level:

• Biennial Report on Great Lakes Water Quality
• Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Synthesis
• Society at a Glance: OECD Social Indicators

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