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The Urban Institute’s Upward Mobility Framework project is building evidence while providing guidance to select communities as they work to create the conditions that lift residents out of poverty and on to a pathway that advances their economic success, power and autonomy, and sense of being valued in their community.

The Upward Mobility Framework identifies key conditions within a community that have the power to propel people and families out of poverty and narrow racial inequities. Our framework also provides a set of interrelated, evidence-based metrics that local leaders can use to establish priorities, mobilize action, and assess their progress toward cultivating conditions that support greater mobility from poverty.

You can explore your community's data using the Upward Mobility Data Dashboard. The dashboard provides Mobility Metrics data for 24 predictors. The predictors are indicators that are strongly associated with upward mobility, according to the Upward Mobility Framework’s three-part definition of the term that encompasses long-term economic success, dignity and belonging, and power and autonomy. The predictors fall within one of five pillars, which represent supports people need from their communities to achieve upward mobility.

The dashboard shows a snapshot of these 24 predictors over time, across categories, and for every county and more than 480 cities in the US. People can use the predictors and their associated metrics to understand conditions in their communities, contextualize those conditions, establish priorities to mobilize action, and monitor progress.

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