Welcome to the Charlotte Regional Indicators Project

The Charlotte Regional Indicators Project tracks and assesses key indicators of quality of life for the 14-county, 2-state region around Charlotte, NC. The Project provides objective, reliable, and relevant data that measure the region’s annual progress on a wide range of indicators impacting the region’s social, economic, and environmental quality of life.

The indicators are organized in 10 theme areas:

  • Arts, Recreation, and Cultural Life;
  • Economy;
  • Education;
  • Environment;
  • Government and Citizen Participation;
  • Health;
  • Housing;
  • Public Safety;
  • Social Well-Being; and
  • Transportation.

While the ten theme areas individually represent critical components of the region’s quality of life, collectively, they provide a holistic/comprehensive framework that allows the region to better understand how they relate to one another.

By focusing on the region as a whole, and by looking not just at snapshots but at trends over time, the Project hopes to stimulate collaboration across political boundaries and between the public and private sectors, towards sustaining our shared quality of life.