Community needs in Dallas

These are the neighborhoods the churches of Dallas city Network sit in, measured by the national health and census surveys across 721 neighborhoods and about 941,192 residents. A city figure hides as much as it shows, so where a need concentrates is printed with it.

• Uninsured All Ages (Census) — 21.3% (between 13.8% and 28.9%). Heaviest around Balch Springs (32.7%), Arlington (30.1%), Garland (28.5%).
• Uninsured Adults 18-64 — 21.9%. Heaviest around Cockrell Hill (39.3%), Arlington (37.3%), Balch Springs (32.3%).
• Obesity — 36.1%. Heaviest around Hutchins (43.5%), Fort Worth (43.2%), Lancaster (42.3%).
• Fair/Poor Health Status — 23.6%.

6 measures are missing here — food insecurity, housing insecurity, lack of social/emotional support, social isolation, transportation barriers, utility shutoff threat — because the national survey behind them was never run in this state. That is a gap in the source, not a finding about Dallas.

CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau · 2019-2023, 2023. How we measure this, including which figures we withhold and why.

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