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New Whitman County Trends Website

IPPEA Launches New Trends Site

The new Whitman County Trends website has just launched, with nearly 100 indicators to track areas such as education, housing, public health and safety, and economic vitality. The website, like its counterpart here and for other Washington counties, has been designed to present data readily accessible to people in local communities. Trends sites are used by schools, businesses, non-profit...

Electric Vehicle Population Map - by Postal Code

Chelan & Douglas' Growing Number of EVs on the Road

Are you in the market for a new vehicle? You might want to consider a hybrid. According to the Alliance for Automotive Innovation’s Electric Vehicle Fourth Quarter 2023 Report, Washington saw a large increase in its EV market share. The 2023 figure of 18% saw a 5.9 pp increase when compared to 2022. This was the largest gain in the country for...

Young Children in 2020: County Undercounts and Overcounts

Census Estimates Nationwide Errors in Reporting

In the United States census that is taken every ten years, the group that has been most often undercounted and consistently falls below estimates are young children of ages 0 to 4. For the 2020 census in particular, the Census Bureau has determined that its count of young children was below their revised estimates by 5.4%, or about...

Public High School On-Time Graduation Rate Continues to Outperform

High Rate of On-time High School Graduation

For many area residents, June means graduation – from a college, a university, or from one school to another within the K-12 system. This indicator spotlights the collective success of local public-school districts with the graduation from high school. Securing a high school diploma marks a milestone in a person’s life. It signifies that a student has done the requisite learning to help prepare...

Change in Housing Affordability for the Two Counties

In 2022, the number of two-county renters who faced extraordinarily high shelter costs hit the lowest estimate since 2018. At 2,200, this represented 14.5% of all renters in Chelan and Douglas Counties. As Trends indicator 6.2.5 displays, this rate was far below the estimate of Washington state renters in this category (23.5%) as well as those...

Domestic Violence in Chelan & Douglas

Not only do survivors of domestic violence experience physical and emotional trauma, but they often lose time from work and school, impacting their family’s economic well-being as well. Domestic violence can also cause generational trauma that is passed on. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC): Survivors can experience mental health problems such as...

In this issue, we say goodbye to four graduating interns. They have accomplished so much over the past year at the institute. Left to right, they are: Laura Velasquez-Neal (mechanical engineering), Jessica Phan (Visual Communications Design), Angelica Cortes (Data Analytics) and Miranda Carmona (Economics). Angelica and Miranda have each received the Frances Houston medal, awarded to 20 graduating seniors for excellence in academics. All four will do well wherever they go.