Item no. 11a_supp
Meeting Date: September 14, 2021



Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
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What
influences
health &
well being?

What is an Index?

What is an Equity Index

Helps leverage                          Using Data to
Identifies
Mapping Tool         limited                           Help Advance
Opportunity
resources                                Equity

Starting Points:
Index             GIS Shapefile
User Friendly
Audience   Analysts   Government      Community
Data             Organization's
Internal                                      External
Vision &
Stakeholders                             Stakeholders
Mission

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The Do's and Don'ts

Do Use
Don't        Do Identify        Don't
Accurate
Blame      YOUR Faults      Shame
Data

Port's Equity Index?
Aggregated by Census Blocks Groups
4 Equally Weighted Determinant Categories
21 Indicators
Racial Demographic Overlay
All sources were authoritative, accurate and reliable data;
collected by block group or census tract.
Established all calculations and data within ArcGIS First

Categories | Century Agenda|Definitions
Accessibility   Goal #5 Become a model for equity, diversity,  Indicators that are not necessary for survival but advance
and inclusion.                                    the standard of living in a community so that people of all
abilities can fully access and participate in public life (e.g.
proximity to parks and open space, access to healthy
food, pedestrian and bike facilities).
Economy    Goal #3 Responsibly invest in the economic   Indicators that demonstrate the opportunity for the
growth of the region and all its communities.     creation, retention, transfer, and accumulation of wealth
within a community for residents, businesses, and
community stakeholders (e.g. poverty rate, median
household income, educational attainment).
Environment  Goal #4 Be the greenest and most energy    Indicators that represent the health of the environment,
efficient port in North America.                   including human-made impacts and bio-physical
elements, and thus the vitality of the community (e.g.
diesel emissions, risk of toxic release from facilities, traffic
density).
Livability       Goal #6 Be a highly effective public agency.   Indicators that demonstrate a safe and healthy standard
Objective #18 Partner and engage with         of living (e.g. housing cost burden, home ownership rate,
transit access).
external stakeholders to build healthy, safe,
and equitable communities.

Methodology
Accessibility                                          Livability
Proximity to Parks and                                                                                                  Housing Cost Burden
Open Space                                                              Transit Access
Access to Jobs by Transit
Access to Healthy
Social          Crime Index
Food                                                                    Life Expectancy
Pedestrian and Bike                                                                                                     High School Graduation
Facilities                                                                                                      Rate
Internet Access                            Determinants
Voter Participation
Environmental                                    Economy
Diesel Emissions and NOx Emissions                                                                                           Poverty Rate
Average Annual PM 2.5                                                                                                          Unemployment Rate
Risk of Toxic Releases from Facilities                                                                                          Median Household Income
Traffic density                                                                                                                       Educational Attainment
Job Density

Distribution of Data
Moderate
Opportunity


Lo w Opportunity                                     High Opportunity


Very Low Opportunity                                                                                     Very High
Opportunity

- 1.0                    - 0.5                   MEAN                   0.5                        1 

Port Equity Index

Port Equity Index

Des Moines (Placeholder)
Heavy   0%                    71%   Heavy
Traffic                                                 Traffic
Food    0%                     21%    Food
Desert                                       Desert
No High      9%                                 23%       No High
School                                                       School
Diploma                                                  Diploma
48%  White Non Hispanic  2 8% White Non Hispanic


Online Tool

+]                                                             Estimated Jobs Total
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Construction 7,113|        "li
Fire 1,672 J Jl
Manufacturing 14 k[EER ili
Retail 5,582[J     1
Services 19k[NGG"|i
Wholesale, Trade, Utilities 18kI|
Government 2,850 Jl
Education 2,588 [ll



Sources: US Census Bureau, Amencan Community Survey (ACS) 5-year dataset, 2015-
2018. PSRC - 2018 Covered Employment Estimates.

City of Kent

Next Steps

Internal           External
Case Studies                                       Story Maps
Presentation     Presentation

Questions?
Alison Beason
Beason.A@PortSeattle.org
Thank You