The Community Capitals Framework (CCF), commonly used in rural economic development, identifies seven types of capital: built, cultural, financial, human, natural, political, and social.

Explore the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s research, map, and podcast that explore the creation of local community-owned networks.

From ICIC, this report explores four models of inclusive clusters, including definitions, cluster identification and analysis, and workforce considerations.

A collaborative guide from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and the EDA, look at the potential to connect and link strategies across economic development and hazard mitigation planning.

A summary of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation’s (LISC) ecosystem focused approach to serving small and micro-businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Researchers at Simon Fraser University outline eight core principles to guide the inclusion of diverse voices in public engagement initiatives. This guide includes addressing barriers to accessibility and engaging participants with lived experiences.

From Silkworm Studio, this film examines the history of redlining and the continued impact on neighborhoods and housing policy today.

Created with support from the EDA, this platform analyzes and summarizes several open data sets that identify regional clusters by location and industry.

A metric of racial segregation that indicates how evenly members of racial and ethnic groups are distributed across a region as a whole.

From PolicyLink, this platform provides a set of dashboards and maps to with racial and economic equity measures.

From Argonne National Laboratory and StatsAmerica, data on economic distress, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the emergence of industry clusters at the regional and local levels.

A map compiling multiple data sources nationally to create the most to-date map of broadband availability, speeds and pricing at the local level.

Among the common descriptors that individuals use to describe their region is growing or declining. While growth, regarding population, jobs, or industries, is an important metric to understand better the movement of residents, migration data can illuminate population trends alongside descriptive demographics, including if young adults are staying in the region or Black residents are leaving the region. When broken out with demographics, these trends can provide a fuller picture of equity changes over time. For example, in St. Louis, migration trends have shown that many factors, including historic disinvestment and the rising cost of living, have led to Black residents’ displacement from historically Black neighborhoods. Additionally, this data illuminates how federal rural investments may impact youth outmigration. By better understanding migration, steps can be taken to leverage shrink-smart or smart-growth strategies within the region. Explore more through the Census Bureau’s Migration Data searchable tools and maps.

Understand how cost burdens, such as housing and transportation, impact lowwage workers can be understood by calculating a living wage and exploring metrics related to income and living wage by racial and demographic groups.

An independent, non-profit research group with various analysis tools, including maps of climate change impact and maps of wildfire risk.

From the Center for Neighborhood Technology, this index provides a comprehensive view of affordability that includes both the cost of housing and the cost of transportation at the neighborhood level.

A metric of economic inequality, the Gini coefficient summarizes the spread of income across the population, from equally shared to held by one or a few individuals.

A mapping and data tool from the EPA designed to provide users with access to a dataset that combines environmental and demographic indicators.

From Opportunity Insights, combines federal data and anonymized corporate data to provide a timeline of the economic impacts of COVID-19 from 2022 until today. These metrics include consumer spending, small business, employment, education, and public health.

From the Urban Institute, this tool allows you to disaggregate your data to understand the geographic and demographic disparities of any services or programs you may offer.