The North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission created the North Central Data Dashboard, an online Dashboard that everyone in the region can use to track efforts to further regional economic development progress.

The Dashboard shows how the entire region and each county is performing in nearly 50 metrics, organized on five different pages, one for each of the region’s CEDS Strategic priorities. For example, on the Employment and Education page, metrics include People Living in Poverty, Employment by Industry and Hourly Wages by Job Type. The final page on the Dashboard presents actual “needles” for each strategic goal, indicating progress toward incremental success as defined by the CEDS Committee.