BRHP seeks to remove the barriers for families who have historically been excluded from some of the region’s most resource-rich neighborhoods. These neighborhoods have quality schools, low-poverty rates, employment opportunities, and many other factors that make them well situated for any family. There are opportunity areas throughout the jurisdictions in our region, including Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard Counties.

BRHP uses 21 different data points, in three categories, to determine whether each of the region’s 670 census tracts are opportunity. The three categories and 21 variables are (bold to indicate double weighting of variable):