Social Impact Research Center
at Heartland Alliance
33 W. Grand Ave., Suite 500 | Chicago, IL 60654
T: 312-870-4949 | F: 312-870-4950
Media Inquiries: research@heartlandalliance.org
How Does Your County Fare?
This Well-Being Index highlights counties that are experiencing particularly negative conditions and trends on four key indicators: poverty, unemployment, teen births, and high school graduation. In 2011, 36 out of 102 Illinois counties are on either the Poverty Watch or Poverty Warning lists.
More About the Well-Being Index >
WATCH
County has an indicator score of 4 or 5 and needs to be monitored.*
WARNING
County has an indicator score of 6, 7 or 8 and needs to initiate corrective action.*
* The County Well-Being Index for 2011 has been calculated out 7 total points rather than 8 due to changes in the methodology for calculating graduation rates.
We gratefully acknowledge The Chicago Community Trust, Grand Victoria Foundation, and The Libra Foundation for their support of our poverty research, communications, and education efforts.
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Custom Data Tables
Select your counties or regions of interest and then select the categories of data you are interested in downloading. Hit the Download Data button to download an Excel file with the selected data.
