Local Indicators Sorted by Framework

Community Indicators

Local Indicators Sorted by Framework:
Category: Current Results
Subcategory: Economic

The indicators in the following list are those rated 5 or higher from Appendix A of the Exiting Federal web site Guide to Community Indicators, Second Edition (note, the SDI Group recommends a ranking of 5 or better if possible in order to provide a robust measure of livability).

Business Indicators:

Percent of organizations that have adopted sustainable development goals

Children Indicators:

Children living in poverty

Diversity Indicators:

Unemployment rate by ethnicity

Employment Indicators:

Average age of commercial fish harvesters
Percent of residents who want to work full time who actually work full time
Long-term unemployment
Manufacturing wage and salary jobs as a percent of total jobs
Real unemployment (estimated)

Finance Indicators:

Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare
Number and value of business loans in low income area
Percent of products and services where price reflects life-cycle cost
Energy and machinery expenses as percent of gross farm income
Per capita debt
GDP per capita adjusted for natural resource depletion
Environmentally adjusted Net Domestic Product

Income Indicators:

Percent of jobs that pay a liveable wage for a family of two
Corporate executive to production worker wages (ratio)
Percent of jobs that did not pay a self-sufficiency wage
People living below the poverty line
Manufacturing wage and salary earnings as a percent of total income
Food stamp recipients
Length of time on welfare

Resource Use Indicators:

Sales of locally produced food at farmers market
Affordable warmth (average energy efficiency rating of homes)
Annual acreage in field crops
Feed production and use balance
Industrial use of toxic chemicals
Farm acreage

Sales Indicators:

Dollars spent in locally-owned businesses

Energy Indicators

Total energy consumption
Electricity consumption from nonrenewables
Renewable energy use
Proportion of energy from fossil and non-fossil fuel sources
Percent of energy supplied from renewable sources within the state

Housing Availability Indicators:

House price to income ratio

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Last Modified: May 13, 2002