DataShare Santa Cruz
The central hub of information for Santa Cruz County with the most up-to-date data, dashboards, promising practices, reports and over 475 community wellbeing indicators. The tools and data on this platform help local leaders, public servants, concerned community members, funders, researchers and students better understand our community and address root causes of social and economic inequities across Santa Cruz County.
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"An interactive data platform with local, regional and national data available to everyone"
DataShare offers a comprehensive collection of local reports and publications analyzing data trends across various community wellbeing areas. Access the latest reports below or explore our entire library.
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View an overview of DataShare Santa Cruz County. In this brief tour, you will learn how to navigate DataShare and search for data.
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Learn how to build a dashboard. Dashboards are panels of hand-picked indicators, which are often grouped by a general topic such as Mental Health, Food Insecurity, etc.
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Discover how to choose data points related to race and ethnicity to better understand population health inequalities.
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Review the entire collection of 400+ indicators on platform with geographic location breakouts: County, Region, Census Place, Zip-Code, Census Tract when available.
Explore focused dashboards on topics such as education, community connectedness, and housing.
View all indicators that are uploaded from local Santa Cruz organizations like United Way and the County Office of Education.
A Promising Practice is a project or program that effectively improves a community health issue. To contribute to the Promising Practices information provided on the site, please fill out this form.
A Report is a publication that contains locally relevant information on a community health topic. If you have a report that has information specific to this community, please submit here.
Indicators show up on the site as interactive data points that you can create graphs and maps with. If you have indicator data that is specific to this community, please see our guidelines and data upload form.
Steering Committee Organizations
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