Community 

Explore a wealth of community health indicators on our website, sourced from diverse data streams covering education, public safety, environmental factors, public health, and beyond. From graduation rates to crime statistics and environmental quality measures, our comprehensive data offers insights crucial for fostering healthier and safer communities. Note: you'll want to use McKinleyville zip code (95519) to see local data.

Demographic

• Population Density: Provides a demographic overview of the McKinleyville community.

• State Level Data:  This page contains demographic research and analysis extracted from the 1990, 2000, and 2010 Censuses, the American Community Survey, various years of the Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement, and migration (which describes movements within the same country or state) and immigration (which describes movements between countries).

Education

• DataQuest:  DataQuest provides meaningful data and statistics about California's K-12 public educational system that supports a wide variety of informational, research, and policy needs. Summary and detailed data reports are available for multiple subject areas at the school, district, county, and state levels.

• California School Dashboard:  The California School Dashboard provides parents and educators with meaningful information on school and district progress so they can participate in decisions to improve student learning.

• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System:  primary source for information on U.S. colleges, universities, and technical and vocational institutions.

• Cal Poly Humboldt Institutional Effectiveness:  provides quick and easy access to the information needed to make data-informed decisions about the performance of Cal Poly Humboldt, a neighboring college campus near McKinleyville. 

Housing

• Housing Insecurity:  Displays data for all people who accessed housing and services through local response systems. The data is disaggregated by Continuum of Care (CoC) and household structure.

• Housing Affordability: C.A.R.'s First-time Buyer Housing Affordability Index (FTB-HAI) measures the percentage of households that can afford to purchase an entry-level home in California. C.A.R. also reports first-time buyer indexes for regions and select counties within the state. The Index is the most fundamental measure of housing well-being for first-time buyers in the state.

• State Housing Affordability:  Housing costs in California have long been higher than the national average. In recent years, these costs have grown substantially—in some cases, growing at historically rapid rates. In this post, we provide a brief update on housing costs and affordability in California.

Environment

• Tracking California: A program of the Public Health Institute, in partnership with the California Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program that works to make environmental health data and information publicly-available.

• Environmental Facts:  The EPA website shows the environmental exposures in your zip code. Find out about air, water, energy and health concerns associated with your zip code. As well as pollution, hazardous waste, and clean ups in your area.

• CalEnviroScreen:  CalEnviroScreen identifies California communities by census tract that are disproportionately burdened by, and vulnerable to, multiple sources of pollution.

• Toxics Release Inventory:  The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) provides information for communities to learn about toxic chemicals that industrial facilities are using and releasing into the environment, and whether those facilities are doing anything to prevent pollution.

• Air Quality:  What is the current air quality in McKinleyville?

Public Safety

• Crime Statistics: The datasets on this page provide web-based presentations of California criminal justice stastistical data.

• FBI Crime Trends:  Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies collection of crime data. 

• Arcata Fire District:  Local fire incident count data. 

• Humboldt County Sheriff's Office:  Activity report of Sheriff dispatches. 

Health

• California Cancer Registry:  Age-Adjusted Invasive Cancer Incidence Rates in California.

• County Health Status Profiles:  reports data on selected public health indicators chosen in collaboration with local health officers and epidemiologists. This annual report provides California and county age-adjusted rates, crude rates, or percentages for mortality, infant mortality, morbidity conditions, and other public health related categories.

• EpiCenter:  California injury data online contains the most current injury death, hospitalization, and ED data.

• Outpatient Encounters: An outpatient encounter record is submitted each time a patient is treated in a licensed emergency department or ambulatory surgery center in California. The reported data include patient demographic information, such as age, sex, county of residence.

• Patient Discharges: An inpatient discharge record is submitted each time a patient is treated in a licensed general acute care hospital in California. The reported data includes patient demographic information such as age, sex, and county of residence.

• Vaccination Rates: This database provides the percentage of vaccinated kindergarten students by school in the 2015-16 and 2016-17 school years, as reported by the California Department of Public Health. 

• Hospital Compare:  Find and compare information about the quality of care at over 4,000 Medicare-certified hospitals, including over 130 Veterans Administration (VA) medical centers and over 50 military hospitals, across the country. 

• Places:  This web application provides interactive maps for model-based estimates of 36 chronic disease related measures at county, place, census tract, and ZCTA levels.

• County Health Rankings & Roadmaps:  data snapshots offer a starting place for understanding your county's public health outcomes.

Public Works

• Humboldt Transporation Statistics: Transportation statistics by county.

• CalTrans:  Current highway road conditions.

• Road Conditions of County Maintained Roads:  Aims to help you know when, where and by whom, such work will be conducted, so you can plan around it if you have to.

• Electric Utility Rates:  This dataset, compiled by NREL using data from ABB and the U.S. Energy Information Administration, provides average residential, commercial and industrial electricity rates with likely zip codes for both investor owned utilities (IOU) and non-investor owned utilities.

• McKinleyville Tap Water Quality:  EWG's drinking water quality report shows results of tests conducted by the water utility and provided to the Environmental Working Group by the California State Water Resources Control Board, as well as information from the U.S. EPA Enforcement and Compliance History database (ECHO).

Nonstatistical Sources

• Eureka Animal Control:  McKinleyville could adopt a similar model to Eureka with respect to animal control. 

• Streets & Highways:  McKinleyville could implement a Pavement Management System (PMS). A PMS collects data, assesses the condition and prioritizes which streets need the most assistance for budget allocation decisions.