Ogle County

Upward Mobility Data Dashboard
Ogle 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
Ogle County Data

Running the data for each zip code in Ogle County allowed us to see how it’s ranked on the Distressed Communities Index. Out of the eight zip codes that comprise the county, four of them ranked as distressed, two were at risk, one was mid-tier, and one was comfortable. None ranked as prosperous. The four zip codes that ranked as distressed made up 44% of the overall population, while just 8% of the city’s population fell into the ranking of comfortable. 

United Way ALICE Report
Ogle County

In Ogle County 22% of households are ALICE households, with another 10% 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.