Rhode Island Social Equity Data Platform

The Rhode Island Division of Statewide Planning, in partnership with 13 other Rhode Island state agencies, developed a platform to better align social equity policies, decisions, and outcomes into our planning process. The platform is intended to increase social equity data transparency and to overlay the unique justice issues communities across the state face.

The RI Social Equity Data Platform pulls together more than 37 spatial data indicators on public health, environmental justice, socioeconomics, and transportation into one easy to use, publicly accessible platform. The Platform is intended to help with the initial stage of incorporating equity into policies, plans, and practices – identifying how certain quantifiable indicators are distributed across population groups across the state. The Platform does not designate any specific areas as “equity areas,” but rather displays the extent of individual indicators for every census tract in the state.

Access the RI Social Equity Data Platform: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/5d74712fd6414b74b1c4d40775968af0/

You can download all the indicator data in several different formats on RIGIS: https://www.rigis.org/datasets/0e2f1e73058a40dabc11e73b5b637f0f/about

Please note the Justice40 indicator, ETC Disadvantaged Communities, and Health Equity Zone layers are not available on RIGIS, but can be downloaded by clicking the related data source links in the Home page text, or by clicking the three dots to the right of those layers, selecting Details, and downloading from the ArcGIS online feature layer page.

Technical documentation detailing the methodology, data sources, and community engagement process.

This walk-through video will show you how to interact with the Platform and use all of its features: 

This is a living project, and we are always looking for ways to improve. Please submit any feedback or questions here:  https://planning.ri.commentinput.com?id=eKfadQJHG

Liza Farr

Supervising Planner

Phone: (401) 222-4679

Email: liza.farr@doa.ri.gov