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Economic Health and Employment Indicators in North Minneapolis

Economic Health and Employment Indicators in North Minneapolis. Jeff Matson Steve Peyton Center for Urban and Regional Affairs. Overview. Contract with LISC and Building Sustainable Communities Partners Neighborhood Assessment Technical Assistance Shared understanding of data

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Economic Health and Employment Indicators in North Minneapolis

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  1. Economic Health and Employment Indicators in North Minneapolis Jeff Matson Steve Peyton Center for Urban and Regional Affairs

  2. Overview • Contract with LISC and Building Sustainable Communities Partners • Neighborhood Assessment • Technical Assistance • Shared understanding of data • Illuminating gaps & racial disparity • Quantify the values in each critical category • How can community organizations best use this data?

  3. Data Categories • Housing • Cost-burdened households • Home ownership • Employment • Unemployment rates • Laborforce participation • Joblessness • Poverty • Households in poverty • Wage categories • Public Safety • Crime

  4. LISC Building Sustainable Communities Focus Areas

  5. North Minneapolis BSC Area

  6. Employment

  7. Employment

  8. Employment

  9. Unemployment • Spatial concentration of unemployment in North Minneapolis • Racial disparities in the unemployment rate • High African American unemployment rate specifically • Widening unemployment gap over time between North Minneapolis and the City and Region as a whole • Distribution of high- and low-income employment is skewed toward lower wages in North Minneapolis

  10. Poverty

  11. Poverty

  12. Poverty • High level of racial disparities in poverty • Spatially-concentrated poverty • Instability and higher increase over time

  13. Indicator Assessment • Consistent spatially concentrated and racially differentiated economic disparities North Minneapolis • Trends have remained constant in the last decade • Targeted strategies need to take into account both race and location • Moving Forward • How can we target policies toward closing this gap? • Understanding the multi-dimensional framework of unemployment and poverty • Place-specific and program-oriented

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