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Financial Empowerment

Opportunities to build wealth and the cost of living in St. Louis

Financial Empowerment Topic Score
39
The topic score is the average of the latest scores for the equity indicators listed below.
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There are 8 indicators that are used to measure racial equity in Financial Empowerment.

All scores are reported on a scale of 1 to 100, with 1 representing inequity and 100 representing equity.

Financial Empowerment Indicators

Showing latest equity scores for each indicator. Click an indicator for details.

Unemployment 22 Unemployment measures the percentage of working-age residents who are not working and report that they are looking for work and available to take a job if offered one Median Household Income 42 Median Household Income measures all the wages and cash benefits that members of a household earn before paying taxes Adult Poverty 37 Adult Poverty measures the percentage of adults who live in households whose incomes are below the federal poverty line in the City of St. Louis High-Wage Occupations 35 High-Wage Occupations measures the percentage of workers living in St. Louis who are employed in the sectors with the highest median salaries in the region, which includes management and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) occupations Severe Rent Burden 40 Severe Rent Burden measures the percentage of renter-occupied households in the City of St. Louis that spend more than half of their income on rent Homeownership 47 Homeownership measures the percentage of households in the City of St. Louis that are owner-occupied Home Loan Denial Rate 28 Home Loan Denial Rate measures the percentage of applications for home improvement and home purchase loans that are not approved by lenders for a specific, listed reason Business Ownership 68 Business Ownership measures the share of St. Louis city residents who were employed in the last five years that are business owners