CREATE Metric

Income inequality

Since 2010, income inequality in LA has risen. Most recently, in 2020, local income inequality reached 0.5, which represent a large income gap. The Gini coefficient ranges from 0, indicating perfect income equality, to 1, total income inequality.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey: Gini Index of Income Inequality

Our target

The Gini index for Los Angeles County will not exceed .35, and Los Angeles will be a place where all have economic opportunity.

We don't have a way to track progress on this data - stay tuned.