The Atlanta Regional Commission's, "The Quarter", looks at some of the leading indicators of overall economic health from a non-economist's view. It compares Atlanta to other metropolitan areas and looks at the counites within the region where the data allow. While this is not a comprehensive look at the local economy, it is a gauge [...]
School System Composition: Enrollment By Race/Ethnicity, 2014 (How to read this chart: The bars are color coded to a specific race or ethnicity. The longer the bar, the greater the SHARE of that race or ethnicity’s enrollment. For example, in 2014, about 15 percent of Atlanta Public School’s total enrollment was White, as indicated by the blue [...]
Map 1: Years of Potential Life Lost Before the Age of 75 (YPLL75) 2011-2013 (YPLL75 is a commonly used measure of premature death. We’ll talk more about YPLL75 later on the post.) Blues represent the “unhealthiest” counties, while yellows represent the “healthiest” counties. For May’s Regional Snapshot, we looked at the state of public health [...]
Neighborhood Nexus (which ARC is a core partner in) recently put up some interesting new data - the distribution of small business loans. The map, as you can see, shows the uneven distribution of commercial lending to small businesses. But this is actually a familiar story. Before we tell you why this familiar, first a little [...]
This is the first in a series of posts about the responses to questions in the 2014 Metro Atlanta Speaks (MAS) survey. 2014 was the second year for this new, first of its kind regional survey that measures resident perceptions across a host of topic areas ranging from regional transportation to arts and culture to [...]
While Per Capita Income in the Atlanta area has risen steadily over the past four decades, the Great Recession took a mighty toll on the trajectory of growth. Fortunes of entire neighborhoods have flipped dramatically, where some of the wealthiest neighborhoods back in 1970 are today among some of the poorest. This is but one [...]
The Pew Research Center, one of our favorite data analysis sites, recently released new data that shows that 78 counties nationwide switched to “majority-minority” between 2000 and 2013. Four of those counties are located in the 10-county Atlanta region (Douglas, Gwinnett, Henry and Rockdale). We have talked about the diversification of the Atlanta region for years, [...]
In an effort to holistically assess schools’ environments in Georgia, the Georgia Department of Education (DOE) has released the 2014 School Climate Star Ratings. This inaugural system is based on surveys distributed to all schools in the state and reflects the “culture”, character and quality of school life. These assessments are particularly important because a [...]
