Citywide, foreclosures are down 15% and community pride violations are up 9%. With the completion of the 2012 Indicator tabulations, the project now has 5 years of time series data for a number of items and a variety of tools that users can use to explore these and other trends. 2012 highlights and project info can be found in the Pdf Reports link.

NI 2012 incorporates 2010 Census data summarized in the current neighborhood boundaries and provides comparison with Census 2000 highlighting change over the last decade. New to this year's roster of indicators are unemployment rates, drawn from the Bureau's American Community Survey.

Periodically the sourcing and methods of indicator items undergo year to year changes.  While we hope that these changes produce improved measure moving forward it means that time series data not comparable in some instances.  This year Bike Path Access measures rely on new data sources that do not align with previous years’.   Source information about each item is provided in the definitions link.

The NI website has also undergone some improvements including an update to the mapping tool; users can now custom define the legend intervals on the maps they produce.

The Help link provides answers to FAQs and a brief narrative video demonstrating use of the site.  The NI staff welcomes your feedback and suggestions through the Feedback link.