Tulsa Equity Indicators Report


Prepared: Annual Report 2019

Partners: Community Service Council, City of Tulsa, CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance, The Rockefeller Foundation

Summary: Tulsa was selected, with four other cities, to create a city-specific Equality Indicators (EI) tool in 2017 that is managed by the Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Equity. The EI annual report is to track the changes in outcomes for Tulsa residents, confront disparities, and work with local leaders and institution to reduce disparity and expand equity. The findings from this report are meant to guide public policy, identify problem areas, and inform solutions that lead to improved outcomes for disadvantaged Tulsans. The EI tool is a longitudinal analytic framework to measure inequalities. Data is disaggregated and analyzed by: race, income, geography, age, educational level, English proficiency, gender, disability status, veteran status, and mode of transportation.

The group facing disparities for the greatest number of indicators is African Americans, followed by North Tulsa residents.

Six themes form the foundation of the tool:

  • 2019 Equality Indicators score for the City of Tulsa: 41.74 out of 100 (40.02 in 2018)
    1. Public Health: 50.56
    2. Education: 43.67
    3. Housing: 42.11
    4. Services: 40.33
    5. Economic Opportunity: 39.99
    6. Justice: 33.89 (which went down from 2018)
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