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Introduction How Cleveland’s Quality of Life Adds Up Dear friends, exceeding these measures of a good life. Ronn We hope lawmakers, nonprofits, busi- Welcome to Cleveland’s Pulse, a first- Richard nesses, communities and residents invest- of-its-kind comprehensive look at life in ed in our future will use the facts and figures PRESIDENT Greater Cleveland, by the numbers. The AND CEO from the Pulse along with their own exper- Cleveland Foundation is proud to partner Cleveland tise and experience to continue enhancing with Crain’s Cleveland Business to take Foundation the lives of all Greater Clevelanders. this annual “pulse” of our community. We don’t need numbers to tell us that The idea of surveying the community we have big challenges ahead. Many in goes back to the foundation’s very the trends and issues most pressing for our our community face them every day. The beginning more than a century ago. In 1915, community: health, wellness, environment, disparity can be seen in neighborhoods our founder Frederick Goff commissioned a economy, transportation, safety, arts and close together but worlds apart. But series of surveys of Cleveland’s education, culture, and more. the data in Cleveland’s Pulse crystallize recreation and criminal justice systems The report shows us where we are on those challenges. They leave no room to better uncover and address the critical target as a community — those areas that for excuses, and instead give us the issues impacting so many. We are proud to have propelled Cleveland’s renaissance opportunity to unite for Cleveland. revisit the spirit of Goff’s earliest surveys, and made it such a spectacular place to Our community has always thrived now with big data at our fingertips. call home. It also exposes the areas that when we roll up our sleeves, get to work, The data you will see in the following require ingenuity, urgency, and action to and start solving problems. Now more pages reflect much more than numbers and ensure that our city continues to grow and than ever, the city has momentum on its graphs. They paint a sharply focused picture thrive, with no one left behind. Greater side. Together we can keep Cleveland’s of the true state of our beloved city, assessing Cleveland’s vitality hinges on meeting and pulse strong and steady. Let’s get started.
Cleveland's PULSE 3 Letter from the Publisher Using Data to Help Improve Our City
“You cannot manage what you do not that provides a wide view of the “pulse” of measure.” our city and our region. So goes one of the great modern John This supplement does that. business axioms. The thinking is that if Campanelli The goal is to provide the community, you want to improve your business — PUBLISHER business professionals, lawmakers, non- whether it’s sales, employee morale or Crain’s Cleveland profits and civic leaders the information the time it takes to manufacture a widget Business they need to establish baselines, set pri- — you need to measure things, create orities and then (hopefully) begin tracking a baseline and then (hopefully) begin improvement. quantifying improvement. neighborhoods, economic opportunity, Thank you to Ronn Richard and the It is Business 101. equality — there are many places where we Cleveland Foundation for recognizing It’s also Community Improvement 101. are eager to see and help spur improvement. the importance of this project and for We know that Greater Cleveland is a To do that, we need to measure. approaching Crain’s with the idea. wonderful place to live, work and raise a While many of the important data This is not going to be a one-off family, but we also know much work needs points on the following pages are publicly publication. We at Crain’s look forward to be done to improve our region. Education, available from various sources, nobody to checking back annually to see how public health, transportation, housing, has compiled them into a single resource “Cleveland’s Pulse” is growing stronger. We know that Greater Cleveland is a wonderful place“ to live, work and raise a family, but we also know much work needs to be done “ to improve our region.
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www.oswaldcompanies.com Cleveland's PULSE Our Millennials make up more than 22% of Cleveland’s Population current population. he city of Cleveland has seen its only keep people in the city core but also “We’re beginning to see neighborhoods T population shrink for several years to make the city a desirable destination coming back and income levels increasing. as jobs dried up and more and more for new residents. Those are good signs,” says Bob Eckardt, sought the safety and comforts of the Black, white, young, old . . . Cleveland Executive Vice President of the Cleveland suburbs. But for Cleveland to truly must band together to face its challenges Foundation. “We’re as hopeful as we’ve experience lasting growth beyond the and emerge a stronger, unified global been that perhaps we’ve figured out how downtown boom, it must find a way to not community. to slow the population loss.”
DEMOGRAPHICS //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// City and County 2014 Comparison Past, Present, Future
CLEVELAND Population: 384,427 Total Population Age (55-74)
Gender Race 400,000 M F Black White 395,815 384,427 376,461 Asian Other 300,000 2% 8%
37% 200,000 48% 52% 53% 82,777 69,247 76,500 100,000 (21.9%) (17.5%) (19.8%)
COUNTY Population: 1,258,105 0 City 2010 City 2014 City 2019 (Estimate) Gender Race M F Black White Asian Other Foreign Born Clevelanders Cleveland’s 3% 4% Marital Status 30% (age 15 and over) 48% 52% 2009: 21,363 63% 14.9% 2013: 17,970 25.6% 7.4% 48.6% Population 2014 Approximately 598 refugees
were resettled in Married STATE: NATION: Cuyahoga County in 2012 Widowed 11,594,163 318,857,056 and a total of 4,518 refugees Never married from 2000 to 2012. Divorced
SOURCES: Refugee Services Collaborative of Greater Cleveland; US Census Bureau
Cleveland's PULSE 5 Our Transportation strong transportation system is million in capital improvements. New rail their cultural and civic assets. A imperative to give Clevelanders a lines and rapid stations have been added RTA also has worked to reduce the stable pathway to work. According to the or rehabilitated. The RTA Healthline environmental impact of its services by US Census Bureau, nearly 11% of Cleveland project opened access from downtown replacing outdated diesel buses with 240 residents use public transportation to to University Circle and East Cleveland, compressed natural gas buses. The goal travel to work, nearly double that of and the new Cleveland State Line has is to add 115 more to the fleet by 2017. Cuyahoga County residents, who rely improved transit along Clifton Boulevard A small but growing number are getting more heavily on personal vehicles. with express service to the western to work on two wheels. Approximately Over the past five years, the Greater suburbs. The new Cedar/University Circle 440 Clevelanders bike to work, and efforts Cleveland Regional Transit Authority and upcoming Little Italy-University Circle by organizations like Bike Cleveland are has been working with other public and Station will not only provide additional working to promote the benefits of biking private partners to improve access for transportation options but open up and advocate for safer, more bicycle- the city’s residents with more than $226 access for neighborhoods to promote friendly roadways.
Commuter Data RTA Ridership
87.7% 80.4% MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION 60/40 SPLIT BETWEEN TO WORK CITY OF CLEVELAND AND SUBURBS Cuyahoga County Cleveland TRIP PURPOSE 10.8% 55 to 60% Work Trip 5.0% 2.2% 4.2% 3.7% 2.8% 20% School Trip Car, truck, Public Walked Worked or van transportation at home 12% College, University, (excluding Trade/Technical School taxicab) 10% Social/Discretionary
MEAN TRAVEL 8% Middle and High Schools TIME TO WORK 24.8 MINUTES 8% Shopping
RTA Usage Over Time
60 million 57.3 57.9
49.9 49.2 49.2 50 million 48.2 44.7 46.2 TRIPS
PASSENGER PASSENGER 40 million 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
RTA has invested more than $226 million toward capital improvements since 2010
SOURCE: 2013 American Community Survey; Greater Cleveland RTA; US Census Bureau
6 Cleveland's PULSE MY ADDRESS CONNECTS IDEAS TO CAPITAL
NICHELLE MCCALL, CEO BOLD Guidance is finding the capital and connections it BOLD GUIDANCE needs in Downtown Cleveland. Incubated by FlashStarts, Inc. 1621 EUCLID AVE in the Keith Building, this up-and-coming tech company is developing an App that allows students to navigate the college Downtown Cleveland application process through mobile devices. This technology is helping students get the direction they need.
IF YOU ARE READY FOR A DOWNTOWN ADDRESS CALL 216-736-7799 OR VISIT DOWNTOWNCLEVELAND.COM/BUSINESS Our Economy leveland’s economy has taken it on The Cleveland Foundation has engaged reinvent itself as a city of innovation. C the chin, but recent data shows the with key community organizations Strengthening the city’s core and focusing city is finally moving in the right direction. and employers in that area to help on city-based economic development is The latest unemployment figures show change the tide by improving access to essential, explains Shilpa Kedar, Program that Cleveland and Cuyahoga County are affordable housing and transportation; Director, Economic Development for the on pace with the U.S. Yet, when you look promoting “buy local” initiatives; and Cleveland Foundation. at some of the city’s most distressed creating workforce training programs “The region is beginning to move in the neighborhoods, a 5.7% unemployment like The Evergreen Cooperatives, which right direction with the right industry mix, rate is still a pipe dream. offers employment opportunities and but Cleveland is getting left behind in “Cleveland as a whole is lower than director ownership in businesses that are terms of being able to access those jobs what we’ve seen in the past, and that’s a geographically tied to the neighborhoods. that are being created,” she says, noting positive sign. But in the communities we “We are really starting to see increased the increased focus on science, technology, work in, especially the Greater University participation by residents in these programs. engineering and math (STEM) positions. Circle neighborhoods, those numbers are Median incomes and neighborhood home “It’s an incredible opportunity for much, much higher,” explains India Pierce values are increasing. It’s not enough, but Cleveland. It’s going to be important for Lee, Program Director, Neighborhoods, it’s a good start,” Lee says. our community to have companies thrive Housing & Community Development for No longer able to rest its hat on a robust and to hire talent here instead of growing the Cleveland Foundation. manufacturing base, Cleveland must or hiring from outside.”
Cleveland Area Employment by Major Industry Sector Cost of Living Compared (March 2015) to Top U.S. Metro Areas
2.8% 1.4% Education and health services Metro Area Cost of Living Index 3.9% 17.1% Trade, transportation and utilities 6.3% Akron OH 100.5 Professional and business services Cleveland-Elyria OH 99.1 19.2% Government TOTAL Pittsburgh PA 94.4 9.7% Manufacturing Columbus OH 91.9 Leisure and hospitality NON-FARM Cincinnati OH-KY-IN 87.3 12% Financial activities EMPLOYMENT: Other services 13% 14.1% Mining 1031.9 Information (in thousands)
Income
$60,000 $52,076 $50,000 $47,600 $42,589 $40,000
2014 MEDIAN $30,000 $25,845
$20,000 Cleveland Cuyahoga County Ohio United States
8 Cleveland's PULSE Median Household Income: Households with Children (2013 Adjusted Dollars)
Cleveland Cuyahoga County Public Assistance (children in households) – 2012-13 Public Assistance (children in households) – 2012-13
$100,000 $87,605 $80,000 16% $21,817 $60,000 $54,169 $53,710 61% 35% 36% $40,000 $34,507 $22,963 $21,514 38% $15,890
MEDIAN INCOME $20,000 61% 53% 73% $0 Overall Married Couple Male Head of Household, Woman Head of Household, No Woman Present No Man Present
Destination Cleveland Data According to Cuyahoga In addition, the Economic Impact of The economic impact study also concluded County's 2013 Visitor Volume Tourism in Cuyahoga County, Ohio study the tourism industry in Cuyahoga County Study, the number of visitors released by TourismOhio and Tourism supported 63,394 jobs, a 4 percent increase to Greater Cleveland increased Economics, showed visitors to Cleveland over the number of jobs reported in 2012, by nearly 4 percent from 15.6 generated an economic impact of $7.4 while taxes generated from the industry million visitors in 2012 to 16.2 billion in 2013, up 6.7 percent since 2011 increased from $886 million in 2011 to million visitors in 2013. when the statistic was last calculated. $1 billion in 2013.
SOURCE: C2ER Cost of Living Index 1st Quarter 2014; US Census Bureau; Bureau of Labor Statistics
Cleveland's PULSE Our Occupancy rate for the downtown housing Housing market in 1Q15 97% leveland’s housing environment has up their sleeves and replacing blighted about strategies and investments that C begun to stabilize and some of the areas with gardens, parks and other land can be made to strengthen the core city city’s more distressed neighborhoods are improvement projects. and the inner-ring suburbs,” says Lillian showing new signs of life. But there is still more work to do. How do Kuri, Program Director, Architecture, While the city’s residential values we translate downtown’s “renaissance” Urban Design & Sustainable Development decreased more than 25% from 2006 to to sustained, inclusive progress in all of for the Cleveland Foundation. 2012, efforts by agencies like Cleveland our neighborhoods? “This is especially important given the Neighborhood Progress’ Re-Imagining A Keller Williams report indicated that changing demographics. The millennial Cleveland initiative and the City of movement is creeping outward. According population is growing and we’re not sure Cleveland’s Land Reutilization (Land to its report, the Detroit Shoreway, Ohio what they’ll do when they hit 30.” Bank) Program to rid neighborhoods of City and Tremont neighborhoods have Millennials make up more than 22% vacant lots and distressed real estate seen a huge influx of development in of Cleveland’s current population. With have helped showcase Cleveland’s recent years. As a result, average home marriage and families on their minds, beauty, increase home values and provide prices in Ohio City increased nearly 55% preventing their flight to the suburbs will economic development and community and those in the Detroit Shoreway jumped require robust efforts to make Cleveland’s service opportunities. People with a more than 80% from 2013-14. diverse neighborhoods the place to live, vision for a better Cleveland are rolling “As a region we need to begin to think work and play.
Housing Units by Occupancy Status
CLEVELAND COUNTY
Owner Occupied Housing Units Owner Occupied Housing Units Renter Occupied Housing Units Renter Occupied Housing Units Vacant Housing Units Vacant Housing Units
2010 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 2010 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Total Housing Units Total Housing Units 12.3% 207,536 19.3% 621,763 35.6% 53.4% 34.3% 45.1% Median Home Value: N/A Median Home Value: N/A
2015 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 2015 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Total Housing Units Total Housing Units 13% 208,425 21.3% 621,763 32.1% 50.7% 36.2% 46.6% Median Home Value: $82,386 Median Home Value: $142,584
10 Cleveland's PULSE Historical Rental Vacancy Rate for Cleveland THE MEDIAN MONTHLY GROSS RESIDENTIAL RENT in Cleveland, OH 15% 11.59% (the Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor 9.69% 9.91% metro area) was 10% 7.93% 8.26% 7.10% 5% $734.00 2005 (peak) 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 in 2013.
People Moving into Downtown (2000-2013) TOP FORECLOSURE STATES Baby Overall IN MARCH 2015: OHIO #9 Change in Ohio filings Millennial Boomers Population housing units 1 in every from February: INCREASE INCREASE INCREASE received a 955 foreclosure Up 5% 76% 98% 70% filing.
Building Permits in 2014 NATIONALLY: 1 IN EVERY 1,082 (Single and Multi-family, data in thousands) Latest foreclosure rate Down dramatically from Single-Family Multi-Family Total for the Cleveland- US 630.3 408.2 1038.5 Elyria-Mentor area is Ohio 12.4 8.5 20.9 4.3% last year at this time. Cleveland 2.2 .8 3.0 3.5% SOURCES: Downtown Cleveland Alliance; US Census Bureau; RealtyTrac (March 2015); 2009-2013 American Community Survey
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meadenmoore.com www.usa.skanska.com Our Health checkup of Cleveland’s health reveals largest public housing population. Ministries and the Cleveland Culinary A troubling — but largely unsurprising “Community-driven health care Kitchen, provide training programs and — statistics. Life expectancy, infant providers are an essential component of entrepreneur assistance. mortality, obesity, lack of prenatal care … the greater health care system,” explains “We’re looking at ways we can reweave all score poorly compared to the county, Kate Fox Nagel, chief administrative the social fabric of our communities, the state and the nation. But progress is officer for Care Alliance. “Because we to reconnect with each other in the being made as community organizations are neighborhood-based, we are best neighborhood,” she says. “We’re using food work to bring healthy resources into the equipped to identify needs faster and to support community health, economic communities that need them most. design effective community-based development and job opportunities.” “Our non-profit community has been solutions before others can even While many of Cleveland’s health mobilizing to get into the community and understand the root dynamics.” problems are a result of socioeconomic the schools to connect with residents and Access to quality care is only half the shortcomings, one area that is not is in offer that access,” says Kathleen Hallissey, battle. Many Clevelanders have little lead poisoning. Director of Community Responsive access to healthy, fresh foods. But “High levels of lead aren’t being found Grantmaking for the Cleveland Foundation. organizations like the St. Clair-Superior just in the poorer neighborhoods. There The city has five community health Development Corporation are working to is a direct correlation to housing age — centers that provide health care to the bring urban agriculture to the forefront. not income,” says Cleveland Foundation underserved, the homeless and those Morgan Taggart, director of Ag[re]culture Executive Vice President Bob Eckardt. “It in extreme poverty. Care Alliance Health for St. Clair-Superior, says ag and is expensive to remove lead, but Cleveland Center recently opened a new 30,000 community garden program benefits has led the way nationally in creating square foot medical facility in the Central extend beyond the kitchen table. Some lead-safe strategies and has moved the neighborhood, which is home to the city’s programs, like Lutheran Metropolitan needle tremendously.”
LIFE EXPECTANCY ///////////////////////////////////////////////// Deaths to Live Births Comparison (2012) 80
Cleveland 12.9/1,000 live births 78.8 75 77.9 77.52 Cuyahoga County 8.9/1,000 live births Years Years Years Ohio 7.6/1,000 live births AGE 73.6 70 National 6.1/1,000 live births AVERAGE AVERAGE Years 65 Cuyahoga County Cleveland Ohio US FOR 2012, THE INFANT MORTALITY RATE FOR In Years: By Race/Ethnicity (2010) Cuyahoga County BLACK WHITE 11.84 deaths Cleveland INFANTS 15.73 deaths VS. 79.1 White, non-Hispanic per 1,000 HISPANIC 73.4 live births 10.87 deaths Black, non-Hispanic 74.2 72.8 86.3 Hispanic 82.5 Low Birth Weight (2012) 89.9 Other 88.4 Cleveland 13.7% 0 20 40 60 80 100 Ohio 8.6%
12 Cleveland's PULSE Lead Poisoning 2011 Blood-Lead Levels for Children Tested in Cleveland
CLEVELAND 12.92% Percent of Children GREATER THAN/EQUAL TO 5 G/DL Neighborhood <=5ug/dl Cleveland 17.6% CUYAHOGA First Ring 7.8% COUNTY 9.65% Outer Ring 2.6% GREATER THAN/EQUAL TO 5 G/DL Cuyahoga County 13.1%
OBESITY /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
OHIO HAS THE 16TH HIGHEST ADULT OBESITY RATE IN THE NATION, according to The State of Obesity: Better Policies for a Healthier America, a report from the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Annual Report also found that . . . Ohio Adult Rates 70 65.1% (17th) 50 (11th) 30.4% (19th 33.5% in country) 28.5% 30 10.4% 0 Obesity Overweight Diabetes Physical Hypertension FG-Innova-Pulse-Ad-PrintReady1.pdfand Obese 1 5/1/2015Inactivity 2:57:23 PM Ohio's adult obesity rate is 30.4% BLACKS 36% LATINOS 30.9% WHITES 29.4%
C M CLEVELAND’S OBESITY RATE:28% Y
CM 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey MY CY
Percent of obese low- CMY income children ages 2-4: 12.4%K Percent of obese high school students in 2013: 13% Percent of overweight high school students in 2013: 15.9% SOURCES: Cuyahoga County Board of Health; Cleveland Department of Public Health; Ohio Department of Health; Gallup; Health Improvement Partnership – Cuyahoga County
Cleveland's PULSE Our Cleveland Enrollment Education for 2013-14: 37,967 leveland’s future is very much we must have a well-educated workforce. University research. PRE4CLE is seeking to C dependent on today’s youth. Well- Sixty percent of new jobs will require some increase access to more children. In addition educated students who pursue post- post-secondary education yet less than to better schools, out-of-school programs st secondary education and aspire to 21 50 percent are graduating from college. will play a key role in improved learning. century careers are central to whether We have to get students interested at a “Many would like to have education be the the city will be able to break free from the younger age to look where they will have standalone problem, but it’s not. Poverty, bonds of poverty and high unemployment. the most opportunity for prosperity,” hunger and violence in the community Those jobs are in the STEM fields says Helen Williams, Program Director for play a huge role in how education happens (science, technology, engineering and Education at the Cleveland Foundation. (or doesn’t happen),” says Lisa Bottoms, math), which are in high demand and While improved efforts at the high Cleveland Foundation Program Director pay better. Schools that focus on STEM school level will strengthen the college and college/career readiness are being and career pipeline, Cleveland must get for Human Services & Child and Youth created to help generate that interest an early jump to ensure its youth don’t fall Development. “Our school-aged kids need and hopefully guide more women toward through the cracks. to be exposed to community resources those careers to bridge the income Less than one in five children were like recreation centers, museums, libraries inequity gap that exists between genders. enrolled in high-quality preschools in — that’s how you broaden your world and “For our city and our region to compete, 2013, according to Case Western Reserve expand your horizons.”
4-Year Graduation Rates Poverty Rate for Population Age 25
Cleveland Cuyahoga Co. Ohio and Over by Educational Attainment Cleveland Median Earnings (CME) 90% 81% (2012-13 in 2013 inflation adjusted dollars) 80% 82% 78% 80% 76% Some college 30% 25.8% 73% 23.7% 21.1% 70% or associates 70% 68% 64% (CME) $25,394 20% 59% 11.1% 10.6% 11.5% 60% 56% 52% 10% Bachelors 50% or higher 0% 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 (CME) $39,037 Cleveland Male Female
Educational Attainment ACT Average Test Scores Cleveland Male Female Ages 25-34 55,097 26,760 28,337 CLEVELAND 16.3 OHIO 22.0 HS graduate or higher 81.5% 82.5% Bachelors or higher 22.2% 24.1%
STEM JOBS ///////////////////////////////////////// (CMSD) (2011) Remediation Rates 21.3% of job share in Cleveland MSA are STEM Math English Both 43.3% require Bachelor’s Degree or higher 56.7% require Associate Degree or less 71% 2011 44% 38% Wages 66% Bachelor’s Associates 2012 38% 32% All jobs or more or less 53% 2013 29% GRADUATES 19% Stem $65,374 $82,675 $52,164 0 20 40 60 80 100 Non-Stem $37,571 $65,265 $31,453
SOURCES: Ohio Department of Education; Ohio Board of Regents; US Census Bureau
14 Cleveland's PULSE Our Safety t should come as no surprise that “When kids are putting their talents to learning in the schools or supporting anti- I Cleveland’s progress as it relates to use in the correct way, whether it’s through gang initiatives like the Peacemakers safety has been tempered given the mentoring, working or participating in Alliance, which connects at-risk youth poverty and lower educational success quality out-of-school activities, they do with caring adults who have learned the that persists in many of the city’s most well,” she explains. hard way that there is a better way. crime-ridden areas. Whether it’s connecting youth with high- A key piece in improving the safety of The city was ranked the #5 most violent quality, neighborhood-based programs to Cleveland’s neighborhoods, Bottoms says, city in America, based on data from the promote leadership and community service, is to build trust between young people and FBI’s Crime in the US 2013 report. or building life skills through mentorships the police. And recent high profile cases Breaking the cycle of violence in the and summer jobs, that type of exposure to a have only reinforced the need to improve city requires a multi-faceted community- positive community network can help steer police-community relations to protect our based approach that begins at an early today’s youth toward a better future. city and each other. age. Lisa Bottoms, Program Director, Hands-on experiences are only one “Today, there is a big disconnect between Human Services & Early Childhood and key to keeping youth on the right path, the police and young people. We have to work Youth Development for the Cleveland Bottoms explains. Developing social and on those relationships and get police out of Foundation, says it is in that area that conflict-resolution skills is essential, their cars and into the community to begin to Cleveland is seeing real progress. whether its through social-emotional establish those positive relationships.”
Total Number of Delinquent Cleveland Division of Police Stats (2013 Year-End Report) and Unruly Juveniles HOMICIDE //////////////// RAPE ////////////////////////////// Remaining (2013 rates) Cuyahoga CLEVELAND: 107.1 DOWN 26% per 100,000 population Cleveland County Suburbs FROM 2006 TO 2013 Total 88 reported in 2013 compared OHIO: 34.9 2,317 2,448 Juveniles to high of 120 in 2009. per 100,000 population
Total From 2012-13, increases were reported in rape (.9%), 3,678 3,988 Cases robbery (7.7%) and felonious assaults (3.2%).
Total 6,337 6,494 Charges According to the FBI Crime in the US 2013 Report From 2012-13, Cleveland was the only large Ohio city to see an increase in violent crime. Ohio saw a decrease of 5.1%. Top Five Neighborhoods for Juvenile Charges THROUGH 2ND QUARTER 2014 (COMPARED TO SECOND QUARTER 2013): TOTAL CHARGES 8.4% 20% 1. Central 407 ROBBERY MURDER 4.7% 7.1% 2. Glenville 345 AGGRAVATED LARCENY/ 3. West Boulevard 345 ASSAULT THEFT 7.8% 8.2% 4. Corlett 319 RAPE BURGLARY 5. South Broadway 318 SOURCE: Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court Annual Report 2013; Office of Criminal Justice Services
Cleveland's PULSE 15 Our Environment n the surface, a checkup of Cleveland’s Through Project Clean Lake, the Northeast energy solutions. The Lake Erie O environmental health doesn’t look Ohio Regional Sewer District is spending Environmental Development Corporation’s promising. Yet, failing grades from the billions of dollars to separate combined Project Icebreaker — a six-turbine offshore American Lung Association in air quality sewers to reduce the amount of pollutants wind demonstration project — is planned and a steady level of beach advisories when flowing into the lake. Sustainable Cleveland seven miles north of downtown Cleveland. Lake Erie isn’t safe for swimming due to is promoting 2015 as the Celebration Year “We have made tremendous progress, sewer overflows don’t tell the whole story. for Clean Water and is raising awareness but we still have a ways to go,” says Lillian Cleveland has made tremendous and rallying residents to do their part to Kuri, Program Director, Architecture, Urban progress in air quality, according to protect the lake. The state also passed a Design & Sustainable Development for statistics from the U.S. EPA. In 2013 bill designed to curb toxic algae blooms. the Cleveland Foundation. “The lake is our and 2014, only 13 days each year were Lake Erie is also taking center stage biggest regional asset, and promoting good marked as unhealthy for sensitive groups, as Cleveland seeks to tap into the air and water quality will be a competitive compared with 2011, which saw 75. environment to identify clean, alternative advantage for Cleveland going forward.” Cuyahoga County Air Quality Advisory Days Cleveland-Akron-Canton Good Moderate Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups Unhealthy
200 Avg. 134 RANKED 27 150 Avg. 184 for high ozone days out of 100 200 METRO AREAS 50 Avg. 45.6
0 Avg. 1.6 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Park Access (Cleveland) CLEVELAND METROPARKS (within Cleveland) 1,574 LAND AREA ACRES CLEVELAND DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS + 1,494 49,726 PARK ACRES WITHIN CITY LIMITS ==3,068
16 Cleveland's PULSE Percent of City Population with Walkable Park Access Cleveland Metroparks (2013) Ability to reach publicly owned park within a half-mile walk unobstructed n 18 parks and the Cleveland by freeways, rivers, fence and other obstacles. Metroparks Zoo, seven nature/ Residents within Residents beyond science visitor centers, eight golf CLEVELAND ½ mile of park: 302,712 ½ mile of a park: 93,625 courses, over 50 picnic areas RANKS n 23,000 acres of parkland, streams, #18 OF 50 % OF POPULATION WITH WALKABLE ACCESS: 76.4% lakes and wildlife habitats n 16 million recreational visitors most populous cities. in 2013
3 Park Playgrounds Per 10,000 Residents
SOURCES: American Lung Association; Cleveland MetroParks; Ohio EPA; Trust for Public Lands
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$33 M in Residential Investment since 2010
City of South Euclid 1349 South Green Road South Euclid, Ohio 44121 (216) 381-0400 Rooted in Cleveland since 1880. www.cityofsoutheuclid.com [email protected] www.davey.com Our Arts & Culture he Cleveland Orchestra. The tutions — like the IdeaCenter at Play- don’t get through a study of academics T Cleveland Museum of Art. Playhouse house Square that supports WVIZ/PBS, alone. They are critically important in Square. These institutions are famous for 90.3 WCBN and IdeaStream, and the CSU children’s formative years,” she explains. their world-class contributions to arts Arts Campus at Playhouse Square that “Organizations in the cultural community and culture — but they barely scratch the features galleries, rehearsal space and have really taken it on to deliver out-of- surface of Cleveland’s robust arts scene. art studios — are also opening new school programs and summer camps to Artists across myriad mediums are pathways to the arts. the neighborhoods the best that they can.” building a community, feeding the economy Kathleen Cerveny, Program Director, Early and consistent access to arts and expanding the reach of art in the city. Institutional Learning & Arts Initiatives and culture helps cultivate a love and Organizations like Cuyahoga Arts & Culture for the Cleveland Foundation, says the appreciation that takes root and grows and Community Partnership for Arts & region is fortunate to have such a robust as we age. Cerveny says that is why it Culture are bringing change and awareness and giving arts community that provides is so important for these programs to in order for artists to affordably live, work outreach and can fill in the gaps as schools thrive in Cleveland. and hone their craft in the city and to share cut programs. “The arts community needs to learn to their talents with the greater community. “Arts teach developmental, human attract those who may not see the arts as Growing partnerships between insti- and intellectual skills that you just part of their regular lives,” she says.
ATTENDANCE //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland Botanical Garden Playhouse Square Hosted 1,058 performances, attracting 188,669 PEOPLE more than 1.1 million guests VISITED THE GARDEN IN 2013, (10% more than last year). marking a 17% increase over 597,715 the prior year’s then-record attendance of 160,000 More than $60 million THE “HIGHEST and the sixth straight year IN OVER A DECADE” of attendance increases. economic impact
Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (2013) CAC-funded organizations served 1.4 million children $38,581,132 53.3% TOTAL INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT in 2013 and offered: in 2012 (19.3% of total) by people who are n 21,411 classes and workshops not board members, trustees, or advisors. n 18,881 field trips for students Individual support second only to n 678 internships and apprenticeships Philadelphia ($86,759,719 or 43.5%) n 418,833 residents attended classes and workshops.
By square foot in 2012, Cleveland’s arts CAC-FUNDED ARTS AND CULTURE ORGANIZATIONS and culture organizations could fill SERVED 5,939,681 RESIDENTS AND VISITORS IN 2013. Percentage 16.1 TERMINAL TOWERS decline in CAC-funded organizations impacted Cuyahoga County’s federal support economy through $342,955,828 in direct expenditures, for the arts in FOR EVERY 1,000 PEOPLE LIVING IN including $149,616,298 in salaries in 2013. Cuyahoga County GREATER CLEVELAND, 5 ARE MUSICIANS THESE ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORT NEARLY 9,000 JOBS. from 2010-12.
SOURCES: Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland Botanical Garden; Community Partnership for Arts & Culture; Cuyahoga Arts & Culture; Playhouse Square
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