2018 Tulsa Equality Indicators Score is Out Now!

The 2018 Tulsa Equality Indicators Annual Report is now available. Read the full report here!

New Web Apps from Tulsa Equality Indicators

The Tulsa Equality Indicators team is continuously developing new Web Apps to help fellow Tulsans Discover Inequalities in the City of Tulsa. From the time that Tulsa Equality Indicators first launched in April 2018 through our initial months of community engagement sessions, there have been two standout requests… Click here to read more.

Press Release for Launch of Tulsa Equality Indicators

TULSA, Okla. – The City of Tulsa and the Community Service Council released the first annual Equality Indicators report today at Tulsa City Hall, which uses data to measure equality using a tool developed in partnership with the City University of New York Institute for State and Local Governance and The Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities network… Click here to read more.

Letter from Mayor of Tulsa, GT Bynum

Since taking office a year ago, I have called on citizens to join me in dreaming big and making Tulsa a world-class city. As we begin to renew that spirit of high expectations, we cannot overlook the glaring disparities that exist in Tulsa and the need to address them. In Tulsa, a child born in one zip code of Tulsa should have the same life expectancy as a child born in a different zip code in Tulsa. Unfortunately, this is currently not the case… Click here to read more.

How do we measure equality?

We developed 54 indicators to measure progress towards equality across six thematic areas: Economic Opportunity, Education, Housing, Justice, Public Health, and Services. Within each theme, we look at three specific topics. For example, within Housing, we look at equality in Affordability, Homelessness, and Availability. Finally, within each topic, we look at three unique indicators.