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Community Commons
An interactive mapping, networking, and learning utility for
leaders from community to national levels, working to create
healthy, equitable, and sustainable communities.
Designed to connect, enhance the performance, and track the
long-term impact of place-based, multi-sector initiatives working
toward improved population health, equitable prosperity, the
vitality of place, and meaningful engagement in our democracy.
Key Features• An interactive Initiatives Map of the Movement searchable site profiles
and stories of hundreds of place-based, evidence-informed community initiatives around the nation.
• A Commons Map Room, where users can make GIS maps and generate reports by accessing over 7,000 GIS data layers at multiple levels of geography including state, county, zip code, tract, block group, block, and point-levels.
• An initial array of ‘Starter Maps’, tools, widgets, data apps, case stories, Features, news and other contextualized resources
• Access to who and what’s working across the array of place-based initiatives
• Engaging dialogue with colleagues around the nation exploring similar interests and challenges
What’s on Community Commons?
• Weekly Features
• Daily News
• Social Media Presence
• Tools and Resources
Data Newest:• Predominant Race/Ethnicity by
Block Group• Modified Retail Food Environment
Indicator (mRFEI) Score by Census Tract (CDC)
• County Health Ranking 2012
Starter Maps
What’s on Community Commons?
Predominant Race and Ethnicity by Block Group from Census 2010
% Population Below Poverty by Census Tract
Predominant Race and Ethnicity by Block Group from Census 2010
Predominant Race/Ethnicity by Census Block Group and School Locations
Access to Healthy Food Modified Retail Food Environment Index Scores, 2011, by Census Tract
