Quality of Life Dashboard
2013 NACo Achievement Award Winner
Mecklenburg County, N.C., NC
Best In Category
About the Program
Category: Community and Economic Development (Best in Category)
Year: 2013
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Quality of Life Study is a collection of social, crime, physical, economic and environmental measurements that provide a snapshot of the health of our neighborhoods. In 2012 Mecklenburg County GIS developed the Quality of Life Dashboard, an advanced HTML5 web application designed to help users convert the Quality of Life Study data into understandable and actionable information. Our goals were to make a site that is easy and accessible and to open the data, increasing citizen participation and leveraging the ingenuity of the community to help make better decisions. The source code of the Quality of Life Dashboard has been released under an open source license to help other agencies create similar sites for their communities.