GIS Project

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GIS Project

• A Model of Poverty in the Twin Cities Metro Area

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Purpose of Project

• Design and Implement GIS Project
• Apply knowledge and skills of geographic analysis
  and GIS to another field

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Background Information

• Indicators of Poverty
• Income levels - direct measure of wealth
• Housing - indirect measure of wealth/poverty
• Can indicate other assets - mortgage
• Schools - school funding
• Largely determined by tax base
• MN has slightly progressive tax codes

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Schools

• Success textbooks social networks
• Early warning
• Indicates impoverished children
• Cycle of poverty
• Special School Populations
• Lunch Programs
• Indicate poverty as related to income level

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The Project

• The Search for Data
• Networking
• The importance of knowing people
• Asking questions
• Limitations
• Focusing the project

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Data Sources

• Wilder Foundation
• School District Boundaries
• Center for Children, Families and Learning
• Special Populations 96-97
• Kids on School Lunch Programs
• Kindergarten through Grade 12
• Minnesota DNR
• County Boundaries

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Project Flow-Chart
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Step 1
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Step 2
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Step 3
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Step 4
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Step 5
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Results...
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Conclusions

• Areas with Low Levels of Poverty
• Western, Southern and Eastern Suburbs
• Areas with High Levels of Poverty
• Central Cities
• Minneapolis and St. Paul
• Also Brooklyn Center

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Areas for Further Research

• Relation to housing values
• Division of populations in areas of high poverty
• Comparison of funding per pupil between areas of
  high and low poverty
• Comparison of success/graduation rates between
  areas with high and low poverty