Healthy North Texas :: Community Dashboard

The colored gauge gives a visual representation of how your community is doing in comparison to other communities. The three-colored dial represents the distribution of values from the reporting regions (e.g. counties in the state) ordered from those doing the best to those doing the worst (sometimes lower values are better and in other cases higher values are better). From that distribution, the green represents the top 50th percentile, the yellow represents the 25th to 50th percentile, and the red represents the "worst" quartile.

This gauge shows whether the County: Dallas value is increasing or decreasing over time. A green arrow means the value is improving and a red arrow means the value is getting worse. The = (equal) sign means that there is not a significant increase or decrease since the last measurement. A blue arrow means the value being higher (or lower) is not necessarily good or bad.

County
Time Period

0.8

2.1

Red > 2.1
Green <= 0.8
In-between = Yellow
Unit: percent
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Linguistic Isolation

Value:	10.9 percent
Measurement Period:	2007-2011
Location:	County : Dallas Located in: Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA): Dallas-Plano-Irving Substate Region: Region 3a TEA Region: Region 10 State: Texas [ View Every County ]
Comparison:	U.S. Counties
Categories:	Social Environment / Neighborhood/Community Attachment Social Environment / Social & Civic Involvement Government & Politics / Social Services

Why can I view maps for some indicators and not all indicators?
The dashboard contains maps for HCI-maintained indicators that show how your community is doing in comparison to other communities (green-yellow-red divided gauge), as shown below:

Maps are available for standard geographies (county, zip code and census tract). Some indicators may not have maps because:

The indicator data is locally-maintained. To identify who maintains the indicator, view the “Maintained By” field on the indicator detail page.
The indicator data is compared to a mean or median value; the gauge does not have distinct divisions, as shown below:
The indicator shows data for a non-standard geography. Custom geographies, such as special regions, service areas or subsets of zip codes, are not mapped.

Why are some values for counties and/or zip codes not available?
Certain values may not be available for a variety of reasons:

HCI only provides the values for counties, zip codes and census tracts where data is available on your site.
When there are only a small number of data values for a zip code or county (e.g., 10 deaths due to heart disease), data values are often not shown due to confidentiality and stability concerns. You will not see this data mapped or on your dashboard.
Zip codes change more often than indicator data is collected and reported. If the zip code at the time of data collection no longer exists, the data will not be mapped.

Why can’t I see zip code level data for all indicators?
Data collection at the zip code level is a resource intensive process; therefore, many data sources do not collect and report data at this level.

I have suggestions for future improvements. Where can I send them?
Please submit suggestions through the Send Feedback link.

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What is this Indicator?

This indicator shows the percentage of households in which every member aged 14 years or older has some difficulty speaking English.

Why this is important:

Households that are linguistically isolated may have difficulty accessing services that are available to fluent English speakers. The language barrier may prevent such households from receiving transportation, medical, and social services, as well as limit employment and schooling opportunities. In cases of national or local emergency, linguistically isolated households may not receive important notifications.

Technical Note: The distribution is based on data from 3,143 U.S. counties and county equivalents.

Source: American Community Survey

URL of Source: http://www.census.gov/acs/www/

URL of Data: http://factfinder2.census.gov/

Maintained By: Healthy Communities Institute

Time Series Data

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Stayed the same
Unit: percent
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