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Cleveland's PULSE PRESENTED BY THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION
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INTO PURPOSE.
TERRI B. EASON MICHELLE M. FRITZ KEVIN J. LENHARD
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Contents PULSE
A SUPPLEMENT OF
PULSE STAFF
PUBLISHER / John Campanelli
COPY EDITOR / Cheryl Higley
FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER / Staci Buck
ADVERTISING DIRECTOR / Nicole Mastrangelo
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES
John Banks
Lindsie Bowman
Dawn Donegan
Andy Hollander
Laura Kulber Mintz
3 Introduction 10-11 Housing PRODUCTION MANAGER / Craig Mackey
4 Letter from 12-13 Health
the Publisher 14 Education
700 West St. Clair Ave, Suite 310
5 Population 15 Safety Cleveland, OH 44113
Phone: 216.522.1383 / Fax: 216.694.4264
6 Transportation 16-17 Environment www.crainscleveland.com
8-9 Economy 18 Arts & Culture All statistics are most recent available as off press time
Introduction
How Cleveland’s Quality of Life Adds Up
Dear friends, exceeding these measures of a good life.
We hope lawmakers, nonprofits, busi-
Ronn
Welcome to Cleveland’s Pulse, a first- nesses, communities and residents invest-
of-its-kind comprehensive look at life in
Richard 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
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to improve our region.
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Cleveland's PULSE
Our
Population
Millennials make up more
than 22% of Cleveland’s
current population.
T he city of Cleveland has seen its
population shrink for several years
only keep people in the city core but also
to make the city a desirable destination
“We’re beginning to see neighborhoods
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 (19.8%) (21.9%)
(17.5%)
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
48% 52%
30%
63%
2009: 21,363 Status
(age 15 and over)
2013: 17,970 14.9%
48.6%
25.6%
7.4%
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
A strong transportation system is
imperative to give Clevelanders a
stable pathway to work. According to the
million in capital improvements. New rail
lines and rapid stations have been added
or rehabilitated. The RTA Healthline
their cultural and civic assets.
RTA also has worked to reduce the
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
PASSENGER
49.9 49.2 49.2
TRIPS
50 million 48.2
44.7 46.2
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 PULSEMY 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.
in the Keith Building, this up-and-coming tech company is
1621 EUCLID AVE
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.
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DOWNTOWNCLEVELAND.COM/BUSINESSOur
Economy
C leveland’s economy has taken it on
the chin, but recent data shows the
city is finally moving in the right direction.
The Cleveland Foundation has engaged
with key community organizations
and employers in that area to help
reinvent itself as a city of innovation.
Strengthening the city’s core and focusing
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 Akron OH 100.5
6.3%
Professional and business services Cleveland-Elyria OH 99.1
19.2% Government
9.7% Manufacturing
TOTAL Pittsburgh PA
Columbus OH
94.4
91.9
Leisure and hospitality NON-FARM Cincinnati OH-KY-IN 87.3
12% Financial activities EMPLOYMENT:
13% 14.1%
Other services
Mining
Information
1031.9
(in thousands)
Income
$60,000
$52,076
$47,600
2014 MEDIAN
$50,000
$42,589
$40,000
$30,000 $25,845
$20,000
Cleveland Cuyahoga County Ohio United States
8 Cleveland's PULSEMedian 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%
MEDIAN INCOME
$21,817
$60,000 $54,169 $53,710 61%
35% 36%
$40,000 $34,507
$22,963 $21,514 $15,890
38%
$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 PULSEOur
Housing 97%
Occupancy rate for the
downtown housing
market in 1Q15
C leveland’s housing environment has
begun to stabilize and some of the
city’s more distressed neighborhoods are
up their sleeves and replacing blighted
areas with gardens, parks and other land
improvement projects.
about strategies and investments that
can be made to strengthen the core city
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 PULSEHistorical Rental Vacancy Rate for Cleveland THE MEDIAN MONTHLY GROSS
RESIDENTIAL RENT in Cleveland, OH
15% (the Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor
11.59%
$734.00
9.69% 9.91% metro area) was
10% 7.93% 8.26% 7.10%
5%
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 1 in every
housing units
from February:
955
received a
Up 5%
INCREASE INCREASE INCREASE
76% 98% 70%
foreclosure
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
4.3%
for the Cleveland-
US 630.3 408.2 1038.5 Elyria-Mentor area is
3.5%
Ohio 12.4 8.5 20.9
last year at this time.
Cleveland 2.2 .8 3.0
SOURCES: Downtown Cleveland Alliance; US Census Bureau; RealtyTrac (March 2015); 2009-2013 American Community Survey
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Health
A checkup of Cleveland’s health reveals
troubling — but largely unsurprising
— statistics. Life expectancy, infant
largest public housing population.
“Community-driven health
providers are an essential component of
care
Ministries and the Cleveland Culinary
Kitchen, provide training programs and
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
77.9 78.8 Cuyahoga County 8.9/1,000 live births
AVERAGE
75 77.52
Years Years
Years
AGE
Ohio 7.6/1,000 live births
70 73.6
Years National 6.1/1,000 live births
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 VS. HISPANIC
15.73 deaths
79.1
White, non-Hispanic per 1,000
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 PULSELead Poisoning 2011 Blood-Lead Levels for
Children Tested in Cleveland
CLEVELAND 12.92% Percent of Children
GREATER THAN/EQUAL TO 5 G/DL NeighborhoodOur
Education
Cleveland Enrollment
for 2013-14: 37,967
C leveland’s future is very much
dependent on today’s youth. Well-
educated students who pursue post-
we must have a well-educated workforce.
Sixty percent of new jobs will require some
post-secondary education yet less than
University research. PRE4CLE is seeking to
increase access to more children. In addition
to better schools, out-of-school programs
secondary education and aspire to 21st 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
68%
70% 64% (CME) $25,394 20% 11.1% 11.5%
59% 10.6%
60% 56% 10%
52%
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
Ages 25-34
HS graduate or higher
Bachelors or higher
Cleveland
55,097
Male
26,760
81.5%
22.2%
Female
28,337
82.5%
24.1%
CLEVELAND 16.3 OHIO 22.0
STEM JOBS /////////////////////////////////////////
Remediation Rates (CMSD) 21.3% of job share in Cleveland MSA are STEM
(2011)
Math English Both 43.3% require Bachelor’s Degree or higher
56.7% require Associate Degree or less
71%
Wages
GRADUATES
2011 44%
38%
66% Bachelor’s Associates
2012 38%
32% All jobs or more or less
2013 53%
19%
29% 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 PULSEOur
Safety
I t should come as no surprise that
Cleveland’s progress as it relates to
safety has been tempered given the
“When kids are putting their talents to
use in the correct way, whether it’s through
learning in the schools or supporting anti-
gang initiatives like the Peacemakers
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)
Cleveland
Cuyahoga
County Suburbs
DOWN 26% CLEVELAND: 107.1
per 100,000 population
FROM 2006 TO 2013
Total 88 reported in 2013 compared OHIO: 34.9
2,317 2,448 to high of 120 in 2009. per 100,000 population
Juveniles
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 According to the FBI Crime in the US 2013 Report
Charges
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
2. Glenville 345 4.7% 7.1%
AGGRAVATED LARCENY/
3. West Boulevard 345 ASSAULT THEFT
4. Corlett 319 7.8% 8.2%
RAPE BURGLARY
5. South Broadway 318 SOURCE: Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court Annual Report 2013; Office of Criminal Justice Services
Cleveland's PULSE 15Our
Environment
O n the surface, a checkup of Cleveland’s
environmental health doesn’t look
promising. Yet, failing grades from the
Through Project Clean Lake, the Northeast
Ohio Regional Sewer District is spending
energy solutions. The Lake Erie
Environmental Development Corporation’s
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
RANKED 27
Good Moderate Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups Unhealthy
200 Avg. 134
150
Avg. 184 for high ozone days out of
100
50 Avg. 45.6
200 METRO AREAS
0 Avg. 1.6
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Park Access (Cleveland)
LAND AREA ACRES
CLEVELAND METROPARKS (within Cleveland)
CLEVELAND DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
+ 1,494
1,574
49,726 PARK ACRES WITHIN CITY LIMITS ==3,068
16 Cleveland's PULSEPercent 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,
lakes and wildlife habitats
#18 OF 50 % OF POPULATION WITH WALKABLE ACCESS: 76.4%
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
Walkable • TransiT-Friendly • Close To every ameniTy • aFFordable
thriving
$64 M
in Commercial
Investment
since 2010
NamEd a
Top 10
coMMuniTy
by Keller Williams
Realty for 2014
$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
econdev@seuclid.com www.davey.comOur
Arts & Culture
T he Cleveland Orchestra.
Cleveland Museum of Art. Playhouse
Square. These institutions are famous for
The tutions — like the IdeaCenter at Play-
house Square that supports WVIZ/PBS,
90.3 WCBN and IdeaStream, and the CSU
don’t get through a study of academics
alone. They are critically important in
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
597,715
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
THE “HIGHEST
the prior year’s then-record
attendance of 160,000 More than $60 million
IN OVER A DECADE”
and the sixth straight year
of attendance increases. economic impact
Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (2013)
CAC-funded organizations served 1.4 million children
in 2013 and offered:
n 21,411 classes and workshops
53.3% $38,581,132
TOTAL INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT
in 2012 (19.3% of total) by people who are
n 18,881 field trips for students
not board members, trustees, or advisors.
n 678 internships and apprenticeships
Individual support second only to
n 418,833 residents attended classes and workshops.
Philadelphia ($86,759,719 or 43.5%)
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
THESE ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORT NEARLY 9,000 JOBS. from 2010-12.
GREATER CLEVELAND, 5 ARE MUSICIANS
SOURCES: Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland Botanical Garden; Community Partnership for Arts & Culture; Cuyahoga Arts & Culture; Playhouse Square
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