A Portrait of Well Being in California

Here at the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, we’re always on the lookout for compelling uses of data, so we took note of a report released this week by the American Human Development Project, “A Portrait of California.”

The report examines the well being of the people of California, using the American Human Development Index. Accompanying the index are interactive maps that show dozens of measures of health, including child poverty, life expectancy at birth, school enrollment, unemployment, and much more. Users also can find data by county, zip code, metro area, and even legislative district.

Here are a few highlights noted in the report’s fact sheets:

  • Within the San Francisco metro area, life expectancy at birth ranges from 85 years in the San Mateo communities of Burlingame and Milbrae to only 74 years in the Elmhurst section of Oakland, an 11‐year gap within the same metro area.
  • In Los Angeles, personal earnings are highest among whites, at $43,000 per year, followed by $35,000 for Asian Americans, $30,000 for African Americans, and $21,000 for Latinos.
  • In the San Joaquin Valley, over 28 percent of adults have not completed high school.

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