Overland Park residents can check out their neighborhood's data

Overland Park residents have the ability to track key data points about their neighborhood, including median home values and rates of major crimes.

How? Since 2006, the city has gathered data and reported on a number of key indicators each year on neighborhoods north of 127th Street.

To see the latest reports on your neighborhood, you can visit opkansas.org/Neighborhoods.

Why it matters: The information helps the city make decisions about which areas may need additional attention or resources, according to the city’s website.

Some neighborhoods, for instance, may receive additional grant funding or other resources for improvement based on the data collected.

The details: The Neighborhood Indicators” report includes seven data points used to monitor changes to quality of life factors at the neighborhood level, including:

median appraised value of homes
absentee ownership of homes
property maintenance violations
single family and multifamily major crimes
measure of need for each of our Neighborhood Conservation Program area
low-moderate income areas

The Overland Park neighborhood indicator data also tracks rates of a major crime. File photo.

Why just neighborhoods north of 127th Street?

Overland Park collects data for all active and non-active neighborhood groups and homeowners associations that participate in the city’s Neighborhood Executive Committee.

However, city staff further review and analyze the data for neighborhoods located in the Neighborhood Conservation Program boundaries, north of 127th Street.
“The vast majority of neighborhoods outside of the NCP boundaries (south of 127th) have homeowners associations, which tend to self-govern some of the risk factors that are associated with Neighborhood Indicators,” city communications manager Meg Ralph said.