The Common Community Scorecard

The Common Community Scorecard

Defining Excellence in Community Performance

Consistent use of community metrics allows communities to establish priorities and guide and measure improvement. The indicators that form part of the Common Community Scorecard is a resource that provides comparisons amongst communities to compliment existing measures. This resource is part of a broader tool kit that can help establish or support your community balanced scorecard.

The five indicators have been chosen based on their long-term impact measurement and free access to data by any community in the United States, regardless of population size. They are a sampling of the highest-level indicators that demonstrate the interconnected and interdependent nature of the four core areas of communities:  Health and Safety, Educational Attainment, Economic Vitality, and Quality of Life. In addition, the five indicators selected meet the following key criteria:

1. Available at the neighborhood level (Census tract)
2. Connects to other indicators
3. Measure meaningful dimensions of community life, universal to all communities
4. Derived from a credible data source
5. Updated at consistent intervals
6. Comparable at the local, state, and national level

The Five Indicators

Click on the document icon below to download a summary of The Common Community Scorecard Indicators.