improving as a result. IndyVitals is intended the past five years, and how it compares to
other neighborhoods.
to help answer that question while also
improving the coordination of all those in the
private, public, nonprofit, and philanthropic
sectors working at the neighborhood level
to make investments that are most relevant
to the diverse needs of neighborhoods
across our city. Measuring the impact
of Plan 2020 and coordinating collective
Trend Chart Shows Five-Year Change
impact investments are the two drivers of
With reliable data as a guide, IndyVitals will
IndyVitals.”
help planners, nonprofits, and neighborhood
representatives make better informed
decisions and be more effective in their
efforts. As Leigh Evans, Chief Executive
Officer, Mapleton-Fall Creek Development
Corporation, points out, “Reviewing the
community-based indicators will allow me to
be better equipped to tell [our] place-making
story and to strategically plan how to be a
sustainable and driving force for positive
change in the neighborhood, and the City
[of Indianapolis] going forward.”
Neighborhood Dashboard
IndyVitals captures information
within various categories such as built
environment, education, economy & jobs,
health & safety, and equity & empowerment
for areas within Marion County. This
information is coupled with SAVI’s existing
community profiles, providing a breadth of
information about needs and resources in
these communities. Viewers can access
high-level metrics and detailed data about
specific neighborhoods and can explore
patterns and trends. The dashboard is userfriendly, and, at a glance, gives the viewer
a thumbnail sketch of what is going on in
the neighborhood, how it has changed in
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“We are working to make SAVI more easily
accessible,” said Sharon Kandris, Director of
SAVI. “We designed IndyVitals to draw only
the relevant data from SAVI’s thousands of
options and display it in meaningful ways
to meet the data needs of Plan 2020 and