The City of Springfield’s Department of Planning and Development’s Neighborhoods division is changing the way it tracks and reports the health of Springfield’s 34 neighborhood service areas.
In addition to redesigning the Neighborhood Health Indicators reports into a dashboard format, we’ve added several new indicators to offer a more nuanced and comprehensive view of neighborhood demographics and perceived health.
Previously, NHIs were presented quarterly in a “heat map” format comprised of police incident reports, foreclosures, owner occupancy rates and code enforcement cases. We’ve added neighborhood voting rates, vacant properties, poverty status and number of housing units, which will allow us to better understand the diverse dynamics within each neighborhood. Also, NHIs will be updated annually instead of quarterly.
Find your neighborhood’s report by visiting your neighborhood’s section on SGFNeighborhoodNews.com or the City’s website at springfieldmo.gov/nhi. Below is a key that explains how each figure was calculated, the sources of the data and the Springfield totals for each indicator.
The 2011-2023 reports are still available on the City of Springfield’s website, in Planning and Development’s Document Library.