The Cornerstone Housing® Initiative

The Florida Community Progress Index 

Tracking neighborhood progress in Central Florida 

Measuring What Matters

Are Central Floridians facing more or fewer barriers to success?
How do nonprofits know where to target limited resources?
How can government, nonprofits, and foundations track the impact of their programs?  

Under Habitat for Humanity Greater Orlando & Osceola County’s Cornerstone Housing® initiative, the Florida Community Progress Index™ (FCPI™) helps Central Florida leaders measure what matters–peoples’ outcomes in health, education, housing, safety, and environmental quality–at the neighborhood level.  

Explore the Data

The Florida Community Progress Index™ (FCPI™) provides a snapshot of the state of community development in Central Florida. Ranging from 0 to 100, an index value is calculated for every neighborhood (census tract) in Orange and Osceola County. 

Find your neighborhood and view the FCPI™ value for all Central Florida neighborhoods.  

Download Community Progress Reports

Data turned into insights.

The 2025 Community Progress Reports provide deeper insights into the strengths and challenges of individual cities, counties, and county commission districts in Central Florida. You can download the most recent reports below.

About the FCPI™

The FCPI™ captures outcomes in housing, health, education, safety, environmental quality, and more.  

Nonprofit service providers, foundations and donors, governments, and community leaders need a way to measure and track progress in the communities they serve. This is why Habitat Orlando & Osceola, in partnership with the Social Progress Imperative, created the FCPI™.  

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Index Metrics

Based on 40-plus metrics, broken into 12 categories, the FCPI offers one overall index value to baseline and track a neighborhood’s progress. Deeper insights into the drivers of community progress can be gleaned by diving into the individual metrics that make up the index. Click on the headings below to further explore these index metrics.

Basic Human Needs

Nutrition and Basic Medical Care​
  • Teeth Lost​
  • Women Core Health​
  • Men Core Health​
  • Supermarket Access​
  • Food Stamps​
  • Dental Visits​
Water and Sanitation​
  • Waste Water Proximity​
  • Superfund Proximity​
  • Hazardous Waste Proximity​
  • Flood Risk​
  • Households Lacking Plumbing​
Housing​​
  • Overcrowding
  • Household Cost Burden (Owners)​​
  • Household Cost Burden (Renters)​
  • Household Lacking Kitchen​
Personal Safety​​
  • Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes

Foundations of Wellbeing

Access to Basic Knowledge
  • Less than Ninth Grade
  • High School without a Diploma
  • College without a Degree
  • Preschool Enrollment
Access to Information and Communications
  • Households with a Broadband Subscription
  • Households with Cellular Subscription
  • Households without Internet
Health and Wellness​​
  • Cancer Prevalence
  • CHD Prevalence 
  • Diabetes Prevalence 
  • Poor Mental Health Days
  • Obesity Prevalence 
Environmental Quality
  • Air Toxic Exposure
  • Traffic Proximity 
  • Ozone
  • PM 2.5
  • Installed Solar

Opportunity

Community Stability
  • Home Ownership Rate
  • Women to Men Earnings Ratio
  • Mortality incidence with law enforcement
Access to Personal Resources
  • Teenage Fertility Rate
  • Commute Other than Car Rate
  • No Insurance <65
Community Integration​​
  • Linguistic Isolation
  • Neighborhood Dissimilarity & Concentration
  • Average Commute Time
  • Economically Active Women
Access to Advanced Education
  • Associate degree holders
  • Bachelor degree holders
  • Advanced degree holders

Questions?

Do you have questions about the Florida Community Progress Index™? If so, please reach out to Phoebe Fleming, Director of Research & Learning, at 407-559-3291 or pfleming@habitatorlando.org

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