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Quality of Life & Quality Places

Quality of Life & Quality Places

Indicator Measure     Most Recent Value Rank Trend More Info
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Per Capita Income $40.3K Increasing View
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Consumer Confidence 79.0 Increasing View
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Uninsured Residents 19.8% Decreasing View
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Employer Health Coverage 42.0% Decreasing View
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Infant Health 8.3% 16 Decreasing View
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Youth Obesity 34.3% Increasing View
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Adult Heart Disease 147.7 Decreasing View
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Home Ownership 69.0% 27 Decreasing View
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Home Foreclosures 28.2K Increasing View
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Home Affordability 38.3% Decreasing View
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Personal Bankruptcy 4.5 Decreasing View
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Working Poor 5.9% 25 Increasing View
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Right Track - Florida 36.0% Decreasing View
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Creative Industry 67.5K Increasing View
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Health Status 82.9% Decreasing View
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Adult Obesity 26.6% Decreasing View
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Property Insurance $397.5B Decreasing View
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Real GDP per Capita 34.7K Decreasing View
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Life Expectancy 79.3 Increasing View
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Real GDP Growth 0.5% Decreasing View

Quality of Life & Quality Places

Florida’s climate and communities have attracted people and businesses from the very start and contributed to the rapid growth of past decades. But declines in key health, safety, and housing measures in recent years suggests that Florida’s standard of living for families and workers is at risk. Florida’s future quality of life and quality places depends on a wide range of integrated elements that together express the robustness of our culture and that make us healthy, safe, financially secure, comfortable, and involved in our communities.

Pillar Resources and Policy Research:

Palm Beach County Counts Professionals, policy makers, and community members use PBC Counts to stay informed and find the information they need to do community assessments, market research, and strategic planning. Explore this website to compare more than 100 PBC indicators to other Florida communities, the state and nation, access over 1,500 examples of effective county-level programs and link to local programs and services, and set community goals, track progress and create custom reports.
Florida Assets & Opportunity Scorecard the Corporation for Enterprise Development published a 2009-2010 comprehensive look at wealth, poverty and the financial security of families. Read Florida’s profile for measures of economic self-sufficiency and opportunity.
Communities for a Lifetime is a statewide initiative led by the Florida Department of Elder Affairs, this blueprint report from 2007 presents recommendations in the areas of housing, health care, transportation, accessibility, business, education, employment, volunteer opportunities and recreation to enhance quality of life in Florida’s communities.
Towards a Sustainable Florida is a 2006 compilation of essays by the Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida and provides a critical review of environmental, social, and economic concepts for sustainable development in Florida.
Florida Affordable Housing Study Commission was created in 1986 and each year makes public policy recommendations to the Governor and Legislature to stimulate community development and revitalization and to promote the production, preservation, and maintenance of safe, decent affordable housing for all Floridians.
The State of Florida Housing a 2009 report from the University of Florida’s Shimberg Center for Housing Studies is a compendium of facts on Florida’s housing, including state, metropolitan and county level data on affordability, housing stock, and sales trends.

Pillar Partners and Resource Links:

FDElder Affairs' Blueprint: Communities for a Lifetime http://www.communitiesforalifetime.org/docs/blueprint2007web.pdf
FDOH Healthy Communities, Healthy People Initiative Report 2006 http://www.communitiesforalifetime.org/docs/blueprint2007web.pdf
DOS Planning for the Past: Preserving Florida's Heritage http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/preservation/planning_for_the_past.pdf
Collin's Center's Toward a Sustainable Florida http://www.collinscenter.org/resource/resmgr/Century_Commission/CC_UF_Applied_Sustainability.pdf
Florida Department of Health http://www.doh.state.fl.us
Shimberg Center for Housing Studies http://www.shimberg.ufl.edu