Tracking
Tracking the Prosperity Initiative dashboard
On Sept. 21, 2026, the City of Tucson and Pima County launched a public dashboard for the Prosperity Initiative, their shared plan to reduce generational poverty. It is built on data services anyone can query. Tucson Daily Brief reads them once a day, keeps every copy, and lists every change here, so the question of whether the dashboard is maintained has a public answer. Last checked 9:50 AM MST on Sep. 22, 2026. The dashboard itself.
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What they said they would do
Quoted from the county's own reports to the Board of Supervisors and the launch release. Each status is derived from the data where the data can answer it; the rest are dated and left open.
“These indicators will be reviewed at least annually and updated as needed.”
Pima County Administrator Jan Lesher, annual Prosperity Initiative report to the Board, Jan. 21, 2025
Status: Open. The table holds values for 2013, 2018, 2023; nothing newer than 2023 as of Sep. 22, 2026. We check daily.
“The next step will be developing a comprehensive written guide for management of these data, and documenting the current “baseline” statistic for each of the measures.”
Same report, Jan. 21, 2025
Status: Open. No guide is linked from the dashboard or published on pima.gov as of our last look. Asked Sept. 22, 2026.
“Release public-facing data dashboard reporting progress on impact indicators (projected go-live: Aug. 2026)”
Prosperity Office update to the County Administrator, March 5, 2026
Status: Done. Launched Sept. 21, 2026, three weeks past the projected August go-live.
“This internet resource will display the current indicator statistics as a baseline and will provide some information about the trends as well as the desired direction of change.”
Same update, March 5, 2026
Status: Partly. The dashboard shows 2013, 2018 and 2023 values side by side; no desired direction is encoded in the data.
“Identify specific goals for implementation progress, with clear milestones and measurable targets”
Same update, March 5, 2026
Status: Open. No target or goal field exists in the indicator data. The March 2026 update says targets come in calendar 2027.
“The dashboard combines 30 headline indicators linked to the Prosperity Initiative’s 13 adopted policies”
Joint City of Tucson and Pima County news release, Sept. 21, 2026
Status: The public table behind it has 35 rows: 28 complete, 2 in progress, 5 awaiting data. Which 30 are the headline set is not marked. Asked Sept. 22, 2026.
The indicators, as published
Every row of the table behind the dashboard, in its own order and with its own status labels. Values are shown as published; bare fractions are expressed as percentages. Where a row's values come from years other than the column headers, the dashboard's own note is shown under the indicator.
Overall goals
| Indicator | Status | Pima 2013 | Pima 2018 | Pima 2023 | Tucson 2013 | Tucson 2018 | Tucson 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Child Poverty rate Overall Goal · Census ACS 5 year estimates | Complete | 26.8 | 25.1% | 18.7% | 33.6% | 31.4% | 24.3% |
Percent of households that are housing cost burdened. Overall Goal · Census ACS 5 year estimates | Complete | 36.5% | 31.9% | 31.8% | 41.4% | 37.5% | 36.9% |
Poverty rate for all of Pima County Overall Goal · Census ACS 5 year estimates | Complete | 19.2% | 17.8% | 14.4% | 25.2% | 23.4% | 18.8% |
Housing
| Indicator | Status | Pima 2013 | Pima 2018 | Pima 2023 | Tucson 2013 | Tucson 2018 | Tucson 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Percent of Children experiencing poverty who live in high-poverty neighborhoods Housing Supply and Opportunity · Census ACS 5 year estimates | Complete | 29.0% | 26.0% | 21.0% | 25.1% | 24.0% | 24.5% |
Percent of People experiencing poverty who live in high-poverty neighborhoods Housing Supply and Opportunity · Census ACS 5 year estimates | Complete | 26.4% | 14.4% | 8.8% | 37.4% | 37.0% | 16.7% |
Ratio of multifamily housing (non-single family detached) to single family housing, especially in low poverty neighborhoods Housing Supply and Opportunity · Census ACS 5 year estimates | Complete | 14.9% Multifamily | 76.6% Single Family | 15.3% Multifamily | 76.0% Single Family | 17.9% Multifamily | 74.6% Single Family | 23.6% Multifamily | 71.2% Single Family | 21.5% Multifamily | 72.2% Single Family | 26.9% Multifamily | 69.5% Single Family |
# of High Poverty Neighborhoods Quality of Life/Neighborhood Reinvestment · Census ACS 5 year estimates | Complete | 56 | 47 | 28 | 50 | 41 | 25 |
Child opportunity index Quality of Life/Neighborhood Reinvestment · Diversity Data Kids | Complete | 10/100 | 19/100 | 24/100 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Number of affordable and available rental units for every 100 extremely-low income renters Housing Stability · Urban Institute Upward Mobility Initiative Values from 2014 (for 2013) | Complete | 53 (2014) | 48 | 38 | 58 (2014) | 50 | 36 |
Number of eviction court filings per 100 renter households Housing Stability · Pima County Emergency Eviction Legal Services (EELS) | In progress | n/a | 6.9 | 8.9 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Health
| Indicator | Status | Pima 2013 | Pima 2018 | Pima 2023 | Tucson 2013 | Tucson 2018 | Tucson 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Percent of population without health care Coverage Health Insurance Coverage · Census ACS 5 year estimates | Complete | 14.8% | 9.9% | 8.9% | 18.2% | 12.0% | 11.0% |
Percentage of women with a recent live birth who did not want to become pregnant or wanted to become pregnant later. Unintended Pregnancies · Health Department Values are from 2022 and 2021 | Complete | n/a | 40.6% | 39.7% | n/a? | n/a? | n/a? |
% of female clients that use the most effective form of birth control Unintended Pregnancies · Health Department Values are from 2022 and 2021 | Complete | n/a | 66.5% | 63.2% | n/a? | n/a? | n/a? |
Education
| Indicator | Status | Pima 2013 | Pima 2018 | Pima 2023 | Tucson 2013 | Tucson 2018 | Tucson 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3rd grade reading proficiency Access to Quality Early Care and Education · Cradle to Career | Complete | n/a | 43.0% | 37.0% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Percentage of children age birth to 5 years old who are enrolled in high-quality care and
education. Access to Quality Early Care and Education · Cradle to Career | Complete | n/a | 24.7% | 33.4% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Number of open 529 accounts in high poverty zip codes (Roth IRA accounts for higher education) Post Secondary Education · AZ State Treasurer's Office Value is from 2025. Pima 2023 is total pima county and Pima 2018 is high poverty areas | Complete | n/a | 37 | 465 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Post secondary education enrollment rate for high school graduates Post Secondary Education · Cradle to Career | Complete | n/a | 53.2% | 48.4% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Jobs
| Indicator | Status | Pima 2013 | Pima 2018 | Pima 2023 | Tucson 2013 | Tucson 2018 | Tucson 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Transportation costs as a percentage of household income Transportation · Center for Neighborhood Technology Housing and Transportation Affordability Index Values are from 2022, 2019 and 2015 | Awaiting data | 26.7% | 25.7% | 22.5% | 24.5% | 23.5% | 21.3% |
Transportation costs for lower income households Transportation · Center for Neighborhood Technology Housing and Transportation Affordability Index Values are from 2022, 2019 and 2015 | Awaiting data | 28.6% | 29.7% | 26.3% | 26.1% | 27.1% | 24.9% |
Share of households without an internet subscription at the County level and for high poverty areas. Digital Inclusion · Census ACS 5 year estimates | Complete | n/a | 26.3% | 15.9% | n/a | 24.9% | 15.0% |
Share of households with a broadband internet subscription and a computer in the home Digital Inclusion · Census ACS 5 year estimates | Complete | n/a | 82.7% | 90.4% | n/a | 79.9% | 88.8% |
16-24 yrs olds not in school and not working Workforce Development · Census ACS 1 Year Estimates Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) | Complete | n/a | 13.0% | 12.0% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Unemployment rate - total number unemployed as a percent of the civilian labor force. Workforce Development · Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) | In progress | 7.4 (July) | 4.8 | 4.1 | — | — | — |
Access to jobs paying a living wage Job Quality · Urban Institute Upward Mobility Initiative | Awaiting data | n/a | n/a | — | — | — | — |
Median Household Income Job Quality · Census ACS 5 year estimates | Complete | 45,841 | 51,037 | 67,929 | 37,032 | 41,625 | 54,546 |
Median Wage *Look at full distribution* Job Quality · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via Making Action Possible (MAP) for Southern Arizona | Complete | n/a | n/a | n/a | 32,490 | 35,430 | 46,450 |
Median Wage over 16 years old (ACS) Job Quality · Census ACS 5 year estimates | Complete | 26,132 | 27,919 | 37,642 | 22,391 | 24,269 | 33,866 |
Auto Debt Financial Capability · Urban Institute Value is from 2025 | Complete | — | — | 6.0% | — | — | — |
Medical Debt Financial Capability · Urban Institute Value is from 2025 | Complete | — | — | 13.0% | — | — | — |
Student Debt Financial Capability · Urban Institute Value is from 2025 | Complete | — | — | 4.0% | — | — | — |
Total Debt Financial Capability · Urban Institute Value is from 2025 | Complete | — | 32.4% | 24.0% | — | — | — |
Number of minority-owned businesses Small Business · — | Awaiting data | Don’t have yet | Don’t have yet | Don’t have yet | — | — | — |
Number of small businesses in high-poverty areas Small Business · — | Awaiting data | Don’t have yet | Don’t have yet | Don’t have yet | — | — | — |
Cross-policy
| Indicator | Status | Pima 2013 | Pima 2018 | Pima 2023 | Tucson 2013 | Tucson 2018 | Tucson 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Property Crime Rate Reducing Crime · Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS) Values are from 2025, 2024, and 2023 | Complete | 3223 per 100,000 | 2815 per 100,000 | 2635 per 100,000 | 4203 per 100,000 | 3649 per 100,000 | 3459 per 100,000 |
Violent Crime Rate Reducing Crime · Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS) Values are from 2025, 2024, 2023 | Complete | 474 per 100,000 | 427 per 100,000 | 416 per 100,000 | 724 per 100,000 | 639 per 100,000 | 645 per 100,000 |
Eviction filings, 2021–2025
The one series on the dashboard that moves year to year. The source is the county's Emergency Eviction Legal Services program, not the Justice Courts directly; the per-1,000 rates are the dashboard's own. Tucson holds 52% of the county's population (2024).
| Year | Tucson filings | per 1,000 people | Pima County filings | per 1,000 people | Tucson share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2,863 | 5.3 | 3,606 | 3.5 | 79% |
| 2022 | 9,927 | 18.4 | 12,277 | 11.8 | 81% |
| 2023 | 10,844 | 20.0 | 13,350 | 12.7 | 81% |
| 2024 | 9,359 | 17.1 | 11,452 | 10.8 | 82% |
| 2025 | 8,422 | 15.4 | 10,502 | 9.9 | 80% |
Change log
No change in the data since we began checking on Sept. 22, 2026. 2 checks so far, one a day. When a value, a status, a row or the application itself changes, it will be listed here with the date we saw it.
About this page
The dashboard is an ArcGIS application published by the City of Tucson's GIS office. Its data lives in seven public feature services on the city's ArcGIS organization; this page reads all seven once a day, plus the application's own last-modified timestamp, and compares each row and field with the previous day's copy. A change is a string comparison, nothing more. Statuses in the "What they said" section are computed from the same fields. The county's progress reports quoted above are linked in full. Corrections: talk to us.
No AI model was used on this page: every figure is read by Tucson Daily Brief's own code from the public ArcGIS data services behind the City of Tucson and Pima County's Prosperity Initiative Indicator Dashboard, compared with the previous day's copy, and logged when it changes. Last checked 9:50 AM MST on September 22, 2026. Read more about how this is made.
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