The Inclusive Growth Score™
Empowering communities with data-driven insights
The Inclusive Growth Score (IGS) provides local planners, policymakers, community leaders and impact investors with a clear, simple view of social and economic indicators at the neighborhood level to:
Uncover and prioritize opportunities for revitalization
Build a case for investments in inclusive economic development initiatives
Track changes over time and benchmark against other regions
Mastercard will be expanding the Inclusive Growth Score in 2022
Methodology
Data-driven insights to measure and track inclusive growth
IGS blends open-source and proprietary data with a layer of insights based on Mastercard's highly aggregated and anonymised transaction data. Yearly measures related to Place, Economy, and Community provide a comparative social and economic profile of a neighborhoods through an overall score and specific metrics. Each measure is classified as either Inclusion, indicating level of access to key resources and assets, or Growth, indicating level of change in performance over time. IGS provides accessible insights for place-based economic development.
"As we build a future that lifts everyone up, we have a responsibility to ensure all communities benefit from data-driven innovation, while rigorously protecting consumer privacy and security."
Michael Miebach
President and CEO, Mastercard
How it Works
Search for a community
Explore all census tracts in the U.S. and all postcode sectors in the U.K.
Discover a community's Inclusive Growth Score
Deep dive into specific metrics and their rankings
Compare communities and benchmark results
Choose which geographies to calculate the ranking against
Save, download and export insights
Easily access, export, and share comprehensive PDF and Excel reports
Available Geographies
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Mastercard will be expanding the Inclusive Growth Score in 2022
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Data for Good
Better outcomes begin with better inputs
Mastercard leverages the power of data for good. We are committed to increasing the capacity of the public and social sectors to solve systemic problems using real evidence. All insights are developed under Mastercard's deep and longstanding commitment to privacy and data protection, information security, and data responsibility, as reflected in Mastercard's Data Responsibility Principles.
"Every sector, and every company, can play a vital role in leveraging knowledge and information for social impact. If private-sector companies like ours that incentivize a race to the top and value a 'culture of decency' can join together with public- and social-sector organizations, not only can we respond with speed and scale, but we can rebuild our economies for the benefit of everyone."
Shamina Singh
Founder & President, Center for Inclusive Growth
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The (Inclusive Growth Score) tool can help communities like Erie overcome that legwork for the major investors…The score provides a third-party validation of the impact. That's an extremely valuable tool for the social impact investment class.
Matt Wachtler
CEO, Erie Downtown Development Corporation
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