Boone County

Upward Mobility Data Dashboard
Boone County Metrics
The Upward Mobility Data Dashboard helps people understand key conditions affecting upward mobility from poverty and racial equity in communities. The dashboard provides Mobility Metrics data for 24 predictors. The predictors are indicators that are strongly associated with upward mobility, according to the Upward Mobility Framework’s three-part definition of the term that encompasses long-term economic success, dignity and belonging, and power and autonomy. The predictors fall within one of five pillars, which represent supports people need from their communities to achieve upward mobility.

Distressed Communities Index
Boone County Data

Running the data for each zip code in Boone County allowed us to see how it’s ranked on the Distressed Communities Index. Out of the five zip codes that comprise the county, two are at risk (Belvidere, Capron), two are comfortable (Garden Prairie, Poplar Grove) and one is prosperous (Caledonia). The zip codes that rank as at-risk make up 68% of the overall population, while 22% of the city’s population fell into the ranking of comfortable. 

United Way ALICE Report
Boone County

In Boone County 27% of households are ALICE households, with another 11% of households in poverty. ALICE is an acronym for asset limited, income constrained, and employed, and it represents the growing number of families who are unable to afford the basics of housing, childcare, food, transportation, health care, and technology.