The primary purpose of the Michigan 2010 Census Planning website is to assist organizations throughout the State in targeting Census outreach efforts by geography and particular demographic segments where mail non-response is anticipated to be low.

http://cridata.org/htc

The Greater Grand Rapids Community Survey has been fielded to a random sample of adults in Kent County annually for the past several years. Typically, the survey obtains 500 responses with an oversample of African-Americans and Hispanics. The survey asks respondents for their views in the broad areas of health, community engagement and basic needs and collects data on respondent demographics (race/ethnicity, gender, income, geography, marital status, age, and home ownership). GGRCS data is available for faculty research resulting in brief reports to the community.

For more information please contact John Risley at risleyj@gvsu.edu.

The Kent County Tax Credit Coalition is a collaboration of Heart of West Michigan United Way, Kent County Department of Human Services, Internal Revenue Service and many other partners in the public, private and nonprofit sector committed to helping low income working people in Kent County keep what they have earned and build for their future.

KCTCC users login here

West Michigan Strategic Alliance and partners developed of a set of regional indicators that will offer clear, tangible standards by which to measure the sustainability and quality of life in the West Michigan region. These 15 indicators, based on Elements of Sustainable Quality of Life, are a tool to measure what our region looks like and report on how things are changing. The initial focus of data gathering for this project will be the four counties of Kent, Ottawa, Muskegon and Allegan. We plan to incorporate data from Ionia, Barry and Newaygo counties in the future.

For more information about this project and download copies of the report go to West Michigan Strategic Alliance Regional Indicators website.

The Grand Rapids Juvenile Offense Index Report was developed in partnership with the Office of Children Youth & Families and the Grand Rapids Police Department. It includes an analysis of juvenile offenses in the City of Grand Rapids in 2006 along with individual neighborhood profiles and juvenile offense maps for each of the 32 recognized neighborhood association areas in the city.

Download the full report – includes all neighborhood profiles (13.5 MB)