Geography determines success. PolicyMap helps educators and community leaders to identify social disparities more efficiently and work toward solving problems. Join us for a free webinar on Thursday, October 18th to see how our tool allows neighborhood-level visualization of social challenges. Indicators covered will include poverty, access to housing, education, healthy food, healthcare and our new Social Needs Index.

1. Using Data to Inform Decision Making and Policy Solutions
Mapping Social Disparities

2. Zip code better predictor of health than genetic code
• Melody Goodman, PhD.
Washington University in St.
Louis presents Missouri’s
Delmar Divide to show the
link between segregation and
poor health
• Residents to the north less
likely to have a bachelor’s
degree and more likely to
have heart disease or cancer

3. Higher Education & Social Impact
Gamaran, A. (2018) The Future of
Higher Education Is Social Impact.
Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Retrieved from https://ssir.org/
• Educate Students for
Impact
• Embark on innovations to
support social engagement
• Develop relationships that
strengthen communities
outside of campus
• Foster community
partnerships

4. Ways to Map Social Inequality
• Income
• Elections
• Housing
• Lending
• Education
• Health

5. Income
• Mapping Poverty
• Persistent Poverty Tracts
• Gini Index of Income Inequality
• Minimum Wage
• Home Owners’ Loan Corporation Risk Maps
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6. Atlanta – Persistent Poverty
Tracts & HOLC

7. Gini Index In Memphis

8. HOLC Map of Baltimore

9. Elections
▪ Voting Population
▪ Broadband Access
▪ Commute Times
▪ Public Transit Access
▪ News Deserts map from the UNC School of Journalism
and Media

10. Voting Turnout & Population

11. Voter Turnout: Commute Time

12. Public Transit Access

13. Education
• Mapping Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Educational Attainment
• Public Schools: Enrollment and Demographics
• Civil Rights Data Collection includes student suspensions,
expulsions, and SAT takers, all of which are relevant to questions
about equity
• Great Schools
• Reading Proficiency
• Student Loan Debt

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Educational Attainment

15. School Age Children in Poverty

16. Reading Proficiency

17. Student Loan Debt

18. Healthcare
• Life Expectancy
• BRFSS and 500 Cities data
• Healthcare Uninsured https://plcy.mp/M2Mw3Zw
• Healthy Food and LSA - Jacksonville with Grocery
Retail Locations
• Medically Underserved
• Opioids

19. Opioid Data

20. Opioid Prescription Rates

23. Housing
• Home Vacancies
• Affordability
• Gentrification
• Housing Quality
• Age
• Plumbing
• Electricity

24. Affordability - Cost Burdens

26. Home Age

27. Gentrification in DC

28. Gentrification in DC