The Child Opportunity Index (COI)

The Child Opportunity Index measures and maps the conditions children need: safe housing, good schools, access to healthy food, green spaces and clean air, among others. These conditions are not equitably available to all children in the U.S. Black, Hispanic and Indigenous children disproportionately live in neighborhoods that do not provide all the conditions children need to be healthy and grow into their full potential. The map application allows users to visualize the distribution of child neighborhood opportunity across the country and explore data for virtually every census tract in the U.S.

Source: Published by DiversityDataKids.org, built by Hyperobjekt with generous support from Mapbox. Blog authored by Clemens Noelke, Research Director and Nomi Sofer, Senior Communications Strategist at DiversityDataKids.org.