What follows are highlights from the 10 sectors for which the Boston Indicators Project tracks change and progress. Together they paint a comprehensive picture of how long-term and recent trends are affecting the quality of life for all Bostonians in a regional context.

When possible, the Sector Highlights utilize sub-municipal data to convey conditions in Boston’s neighborhoods within the context of city, state, regional, and sometimes national data.

The Boston Indicators Project is currently working with its partners the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, the University of Massachusetts Lowell and teams from around the nation to develop cutting-edge data visualization tools. These new tools will transform our capacity, and that of our community, to analyze and display fine-grained local data within the context of regional and national trends.

Our next report will showcase this new capacity. For a preview, visit the MetroBoston DataCommon.