General Links

Local Sites

Market Fact Book
From demographics to transportation, from health care to education, the Market Fact Book contains a wealth of information about Spokane and Kootenai counties and the metropolitan market area. This valuable resource is published by the Journal of Business as a tool to assist the reader in developing a better understanding of the Inland Northwest marketplace.
Spokane Regional Health District
The Community Health Assessment and Communicable Disease Epidemiology programs publish reports and fact sheets about community health issues, and track communicable diseases and many other health indicator statistics for Spokane County.
Spokane Vitals
Spokane Vitals is a project of Greater Spokane Incorporated. The report is benchmarks the Spokane region against 11 peer communities across the U.S. and was created to facilitate the Spokane region's economic growth and development by identifying areas of challenge and opportunity.

Regional and Multi-County Sites

Center for Neighborhood Knowledge
A site offering detailed mapping of selected indicators for the entire state of California comes from UCLA's Advanced Policy Institute. It is the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge.
EWU Institute for Public Policy and Economic Analysis
The EWU Institute for Public Policy & Economic Analysis was created in 2002 to provide data and analysis about a variety of factors in the region that will be useful for businesses, communities and others as they plan for the future.
Northwest Area Foundation
A large site that covers an eight state area across the northern tier of the U.S., county by county, with selected indicators, comes from the Northwest Area Foundation.
Oregon Progress Board
The Oregon Progress Board offers a subset of the indicators on the Portland site for the entire state.
Silicon Valley Index
A relatively new site that has also served as a model for this version of the Spokane Community Indicators Initiative is the Silicon Valley Index.
The Sightline Institute
The Sightline Institute, formerly Northwest Environmental Watch, shows sophisticated interactive mapping capabilities for a multi-state area in the Pacific Northwest, extending into British Columbia.

Community Indicators Consortium
The national group of community indicators is the Community Indicators Consortium. This is great place to explore efforts across the country.
Urban Institute
A national clearing house site belongs to the Urban Institute, one of the leaders in the development of community indicators. It is the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership.

Baltimore Neighborhood Indicator Alliance
A site with an excellent focus on neighborhoods comes from Baltimore, MD., the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicator Alliance.
Boston Indicators Project
A model for this site has been the Boston Indicators Project, established and run by the Boston Foundation.
Jacksonville Community Council
Perhaps the oldest community indicators site comes from Jacksonville, Fl, Community Council.
Portland Multnomah Progress Board
The Portland Multnomah Progress Board, an undertaking of the City of Portland, has an extensive on-line site.
Strategic Spartanburg
Since 1987, the Spartanburg County Foundation's Community Indicator reports have effectively used data to raise awareness about the many issues impacting the growth, health, and quality of life of the citizens of Spartanburg.
Sustainable Seattle
Sustainable Seattle started in 1991 with an environmental focus but has broadened its look at indicators.

Informing Our Nation - PDF
For a recent study of the scope and impact of comprehensive community indicators, see the U.S. General Accounting Office report Informing Our Nation: Improving How to Understand & Assess the USA's Position & Progress.
Key National Indicators Initiative
For an effort to understand the use of indicators in explaining, in a causal way, the socio-economic phenomena they measure, see the Key National Indicators Initiative. It is an initiative by the National Academies, supported by the Congress.