Data Explorer

Tracking the Impact on Quality of Life

Robust data is essential to informing decisions and developing strategies that build an equitable economy. By tracking socioeconomic indicators and ABI investments in each of the 10 subareas across the BeltLine Planning Area, ABI identified four Equity Priority Subareas – areas that appear particularly vulnerable to gentrification and displacement.

Demographic Data Explorer


The Demographic Data Explorer is intended to establish neighborhood-level historical baselines in areas such as race, household income, employment, and housing tenure (e.g., renters and owners). These metrics will help track progress toward project goals and flag demographic and economic trends that may require policy intervention, such as areas that appear particularly vulnerable to gentrification and displacement.

Investment Data Explorer


The Investment Data Explorer measures progress toward the equity and inclusion vision in several key areas – housing affordability, economic development, transit access, inclusion, and quality of life. The data for the new Investment Data Explorer comes from publicly available sources such as the American Community Survey, as well as ABI-initiated surveys to understand the shifts, trends, and impact of BeltLine work.

Grounded in Equity

Social equity and inclusion have always been at the center of the Atlanta BeltLine’s vision. From its inception as a graduate thesis in 1999, the project sought to reclaim and repurpose physical infrastructure that had long divided Atlanta neighborhoods along divisions of race and class.

While the new data explorer is designed to inform the public and promote transparency and accountability, the data it’s built on will also help ABI grow its evidence base on project impacts in each Subarea. These metrics will help track progress toward project goals and flag demographic and economic trends that may require policy intervention, such as areas that appear particularly vulnerable to gentrification and displacement.

Learn more about how the data explorer is designed to inform the public and promote transparency and accountability.

Evaluating Performance

Metrics will help track progress toward project goals and flag demographic and economic trends that may require policy intervention, such as areas that appear particularly vulnerable to gentrification and displacement.

View examples of performance measures and indicators ABI will use to evaluate equity.

Learn More

If you have any questions or concerns, contact:

Nonet Sykes
Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer
(404) 477-3650
nsykes@atlbeltline.org


Community Engagement

Atlanta residents who lack reliable computer or internet access can reach out to engage@atlbeltline.org to request that printed map and data documents be mailed to them.