Indiana Philanthropy Alliance Data Sources

July 2022

Discover the best sources of publicly available data on Hoosiers

This page is a companion resource for the July 2022 workshop, "Data to Action Deep Dive," which focused on developing skills in data analysis with an understanding of how to make it actionable within your grantmaking strategy.

Featured Sites

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Census Data Finder

Learn about America's communities through Census data profiles. They cover 100,000+ different geographies: states, counties, places, tribal areas, zip codes, and congressional districts. For each, topics are covered like education, employment, health, and housing just to name a few.

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County Explorer from NACO

This tool provides easy access to data that offer a snapshot on a variety of topics relevant to counties nationwide.

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County Health Rankings

By ranking the health of nearly every county in the nation, the County Health Rankings help communities understand what influences how healthy residents are.

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Early Learning

The Early Learning Access Index is a new methodology, that attempts to both qualify and quantify child care access throughout Indiana. This method moves away from viewing access as simply a capacity supply and demand equation and layers in the additional components of quality, affordability and choice.

Equity Data Portal

Indiana’s Management Performance Hub, in partnership with agencies across state government, created the state’s Equity Data Portal. This dashboard encompasses a high-level view of equity related to health, public safety, social services, education and workforce to provide Hoosiers with data to track the state’s progress with closing equity gaps.