Child Opportunity Index 3.0-2023

The 2023 update of the Child Opportunity Index (COI 3.0) expands neighborhood-level data on children’s access to opportunity through 2023, incorporating enhanced indicators and improved data sources. This release refines measurement across 14 subdomains and standardizes values using the 2023 child population, offering a clearer picture of disparities in resources that shape children’s development. Because…

New maps and data now available for the 2023 Employment Change indicator are now available!

Data showing employment changes between 2022 and 2023 in US businesses are now available! These data are from the 2023 Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) database, which provides annual measures of business dynamics (such as job creation and destruction, establishment births and deaths, and firm startups and shutdowns) for the economy overall and aggregated by establishment…

Population Living in Flood Zone

An update is available for the estimated population living within a 100-year flood zone. This indicator reports the estimated number of people living within a 100-year flood hazard area based on the 2020 LandScan estimated population counts and EPA estimated flood hazard areas. The EPA EnviroAtlas dataset provides an estimate of the 100-year floodplain for…