Request a City DNA

Type your city. We build its DNA.

Your city's most critical challenges, from what is already public. Free, and yours to take to your next council meeting.

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Your most critical challenges

The problems that matter most in your city, ranked, built from public data about your residents, places and services.

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The residents behind each one

Which segments and neighborhoods each challenge involves, and how many residents that is.

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Where engagement can move it

The programs that would act on each challenge, and what you would measure.

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What is a City DNA?

A living profile of your city, district by district.

A City DNA shows who lives where, what they have around them, and which challenges matter most in each part of your city. It is the starting point for every MyCity solution, and yours to take to your next council meeting.

Day one
Built from what is already public

Census and ACS data, your county and city GIS layers (council districts, parks, schools, fire stations), nonprofit registries and public place data. No integration and no data from you.

Once MyCity runs
It learns from what residents do

Every program the city runs adds to it: who registers, who shows up, who never does, and what they answer. The census tells you who lives there. The City DNA starts telling you what they want.

What is inside
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District profiles

Every council district described: who lives there by age, language and income, how long they have been there, and what is changing.

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Places and partners

Parks, schools, libraries, fire stations, nonprofits and local businesses, mapped district by district.

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Your critical challenges, ranked

The problems that matter most in your city, and which ones are sharpest in which district.

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The residents behind each one

The segments and neighborhoods each challenge involves, and roughly how many residents that is.

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What to do next

The programs that would act on each challenge, and how you would measure that it moved.

Example

Fishers, Indiana: six council districts profiled from Census data, Hamilton County GIS, nonprofit registries and public place data, with a written profile for each district and for the city.