Community development depends on data-driven planning and decision-making. The following interactive tools allow you to search for a wide range of data about individual communities. We recommend them as a starting point in understanding your community’s development challenges and possibilities.
Casey Family Programs: Community Opportunity Map
The Community Opportunity Map is an interactive tool that highlights the aspects of communities that are associated with safe children and strong families. This interactive, research-based framework is composed of select community indicators and is available for any community in the nation to use.
US Census: The Opportunity Atlas
Which neighborhoods in America offer children the best chance to rise out of poverty?
The Opportunity Atlas answers this question using anonymous data following 20 million Americans from childhood to their mid-30s. See where and for whom opportunity has been missing, and develop local solutions to help more children rise out of poverty.
Center for Indian Country Development: Mapping Native American Financial Institutions
This interactive map shows headquarter locations and asset sizes of banks and credit unions owned by, and community development financial institutions primarily serving, American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian individuals and communities. Click through to access the map and hover over the circles for more information.
center for indian country development: reservation profiles
Use this data tool to explore key demographic and economic indicators for American Indian reservations.
center for indian country development: native american labor market dashboard
This data tool provides key labor market metrics for the American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) population. In doing so, it fills a gap in the published estimates that are available from the federal statistical agencies. Together, the metrics in the dashboard provide a timely assessment of how AI/AN workers are faring, which may differ substantially from the conditions of workers overall.
