This site brings together partners across multiple sectors to catalyze data-driven action at the intersection of community development and health. Utilizing the data repository as a digital tool, we provide up-to-date local community health data and resources to assist our communities in becoming more resilient places that improve health and quality of life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Coastal Health Metrics
Find Your City
Who is Smoking in your Town?
Currently, Mississippi has some of the highest smoking averages in the Nation. The Gulf Coast is not immune. See where your city stands in smoking.
Economic Health of the Coast
Look Deeper
A Snapshot of the Coasts Rental Properties
Since Hurricane Zeta in 2020, rent prices shot up, then pummeled as the influx of renters vanished. Take a look at the average rent prices along the coast to see where your city ranks.
Sharing Local Knowledge is key to a healthy and resilient Gulf Coast.
Keeping this data repository FREE to all users is made possible by our Sponsors and Partners.
A relevant and up-to-date local resource exchange around seven topic areas for use across the region helps users collaborate more effectively and find funding for projects. Users can actively contribute to the resource library by uploading their final reports or other useful information.
Enter the local resource library by clicking on any of the topics below:
Food Systems: "We've never seen food's true potential because it's too big to see, But viewed laterally it emerges as
Transportation: When people find it easy and safe to walk, bike, or take public transit, they no longer have to rely exclusively on
Healthcare: Our health is directly or indirectly related to everything around us from the choices available to us
Economic & Workforce Development: Healthy communities and quality of life are vital to economic growth and the factors
Education: Health, nutrition, and education are intricately linked. A child’s success in school is impacted by their ability to
Housing: Health begins in our homes, schools, and neighborhoods. A resilient housing system is one that allows for
Environment: Protecting our environment is directly related to human health and safety. Water is the defining natural
The Gulf Coast Community ExCHANGE is managed by the Heritage Trails Partnership of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and funded through the Mississippi Public Health Institute. The Community ExCHANGE was founded in 2016 through sponsorship by Louisiana Public Health Institute with funding from the Baton Rouge Area Foundation Future of the Gulf Funds. In 2018, additional contributions provided by Invest Health Gulfport and LPHI allowed for the re-branding and expansion as the Gulf Coast Healthy Communities Collaborative.
This site is powered by Conduent Community Health Solutions, providing a dashboard of indicators that drive community health needs assessments and provide a large database of promising practices to inform evidence-based community benefit programs. The platform is designed to give stakeholders in a community access to high-quality community health assessment data, improved health indicator tracking, best practice sharing and community development tools-- that all function together to help improve the health and environmental sustainability of the community.
. SPOTLIGHT: Access to Internet
an indicator of residents' access to internet on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
This indicator shows the percentage of households that have an Internet subscription.
Data Source: American Community Survey 5-Year
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