Description: Ratio of the share of local, elected officials of a racial or ethnic group to the share of residents of the same group
Additional notes:
This metric is intended to capture the extent to which groups are represented by their community’s elected leaders. Though we provide a community’s shares of residents by racial and ethnic group (the denominator), we do not have data on the racial or ethnic makeup of local elected officials (the numerator). Communities will need to calculate these missing percentages to complete the descriptive representation metric.
View our Toolkit for Increasing Upward Mobility in Your Community to learn how to collect the information needed to complete this metric.
Years Available: 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2023
Variable type: percentage
Files: 11_mobility-metrics_county_longitudinal.csv
61_mobility-metrics_place_longitudinal.csv