Philadelphia Council District Health Dashboard

This dashboard leverages publicly available data from the US Census Bureau and Open Data Philly to examine important public health indicators for Philadelphia's 10 City Council Districts. The project aims to offer actionable knowledge that empowers city leaders and communities to address health inequities in their communities.

Introduction

The health of Philadelphia residents varies drastically across the city – differences that reflect broader disparities in income, opportunity, and access to essential resources.

This project takes a closer look at these conditions by analyzing publicly available data and mapping key health indicators and social determinants of health across all 10 Philadelphia City Council Districts. In doing this, we aim to provide a clearer picture of how politics and geography intersect to shape the health of Philadelphians.

Our goal is to equip local officials, community leaders and the public with actionable, district-level insights that can guide and empower more equitable policy and investment into our city. By connecting this data to City Council Districts, we hope this project continues to grow and support effective solutions that can promote equality and better health for all Philadelphians.

Find your City Council District: using this Philadelphia City Council Tool

Learn about Philadelphia's city government works: How Philly Works: A Guide to Our City Government, Committee of Seventy and in Spanish and in Chinese.

About the Data

For full details on data sources and metric definitions and to download the data, see our data archive and documentation page.

This dashboard is a work in progress. The last update took place on January 27, 2025.

Acknowledgements

This dashboard was developed through collaborative effort and supported by the IDEA Fellowship.

Authors

Amber Bolli, Tamara Rushovich, Ran Li, Stephanie Hernandez, Alina Schnake-Mahl

Sponsor

This project received funding from the Transform Academia for Equity grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Links to Related Work

• Congressional District Health Dashboard
• Rushovich T, Nethery RC, White A, Krieger N. Gerrymandering and the Packing and Cracking of Medical Uninsurance Rates in the United States. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2024
• Schnake-Mahl A, Anfuso G, Goldstein ND, et al. Measuring variation in infant mortality and deaths of despair by US congressional district in Pennsylvania: a methodological case study. Am J Epidemiol. 2024
• Schnake-Mahl A, Anfuso G, Bilal U, et al. Court-mandated redistricting and disparities in infant mortality and deaths of despair. BMC Public Health. 2025
• Schnake-Mahl A, Anfuso G, Hernandez SM, Bilal U. Geospatial Data Aggregation Methods for Novel Geographies: Validating Congressional District Life Expectancy Estimates. Epidemiology. 2025
• Spoer BR, Chen AS, Lampe TM, et al. Validation of a geospatial aggregation method for congressional districts and other US administrative geographies. SSM Popul Health. 2023

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Contact Us

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