GovParti · Civic Health Series · Redacted Sample

County Intelligence Brief

Tier 1: Single-County Snapshot
Prepared by Amy Barthelemy, Founder, GovParti · SSRN 10928268 · openICPSR 10.3886/E247201V1
All figures from live federal and state sources, reproducible from citations.
This is a redacted sample. Data tables are shown in full to demonstrate coverage and sourcing. The county identity is anonymized throughout. The interpretive findings and the "What to do with this" section are partially masked in the sample; the purchased brief contains them in full, for the county you name.

1. County profile

Population119,398
Land area1,522 sq mi (density 78 / sq mi)
Median age35.8
Median household income$66,254
Per-capita income$34,888
Poverty rate11.7%
Child poverty rate16.8%
Income inequality (Gini)0.453
Owner-occupied / renter66.8% / 33.2%
Median home value$186,700
Median gross rent$1,125
Cost-burdened households46.1%
Civilian employment rate96.9% (unemployment 2.7%)
Uninsured14.5%
Broadband access86.6%
Bachelor's degree or higher25.1%
5-year population change~0.0% (flat)

2. The GovParti index panel

IndexScoreBandRead
Civic Health Score (v3.2)49.8 / 100midstate health rank mid-pack
  — Economic section52.4
  — Health section52.8
  — Infrastructure section60.8
  — Transparency / DSQI section40.1lowrecords hard to reach online
  — Environment section32.7inverse of burden below
  — Education section52.5
  — Civic Participation section41.4
Environment Burden Index67.3 / 100elevatedhigher = more burden
Energy Cost-of-Living Stress *27.3 / 100lowheadroom (see §4)
Eviction-Risk (displacement) *61.7 / 100elevated
Predatory Market Index46.1 / 100moderate
Protective Response Index26.2 / 100thin
Preventive Investment Index †35.1 / 100partial
Net Community Protection+15.2thin-positiveprotective + preventive − predatory
Monopoly Stack Index4 of 6moderatebroadband + food + lending + hospital

* Energy Stress and Eviction-Risk are pre-calibration relative ranks (a county's percentile vs all ~3,100 US counties), not published rates. Calibrated models pending. † Preventive Investment has documented partial coverage; some sub-components await source ingest.

3. Monopoly Stack detail

Of the evaluable markets, 4 are monopolized or service-desert in the subject county:

MarketStatus
Electriccompetitive / cooperative — not concentrated
Broadbandmonopoly
Bankingadequate
Legal aidadequate
Food accessdesert
Predatory lendingcapture
Hospitalsingle-system monopoly

7 of 8 markers evaluable; rent-to-own data not available for this county and is excluded from the count rather than assumed absent.

4. Reading the numbers

Partially redacted in this sample.

Finding 1 — Energy stress is low today, but that is headroom, not the all-clear.

The composite reads 27.3 because the county runs on a low-rate cooperative utility (12.9¢/kWh residential, not an investor-owned monopoly) and a mild-to-hot climate. But the lowest-income households (0-30% AMI) already spend 15.4% of income on energy, 2.5× the federal energy-poverty threshold.

[Full version: the specific household segments most exposed, and the single highest-leverage intervention.]
Finding 2 — Displacement pressure (61.7, elevated) is already ahead of energy stress.

With 33% renters and 46% of households cost-burdened, the eviction-risk composite is driven by housing cost, not energy.

[Full version: the renter-cohort breakdown and which protective levers are missing.]
Finding 3 — The Monopoly Stack (4 of 6) is the quiet structural story.

A single hospital system, a broadband monopoly, a food desert, and predatory-lending capture compound on the same low-income households.

[Full version: how the four interact and the order in which to address them.]

5. What to do with this

Redacted in sample. The purchased brief includes a prioritized, county-specific action list keyed to whichever stakeholder commissioned it (county official, advocate, journalist, or researcher), with the single highest-leverage intervention identified and the supporting figures pre-cited.

6. Sources

Census ACS 5-year + SAIPE · DOE LEAD · EIA-861 · ORNL EAGLE-I · NOAA NCEI · CDC · NHTSA FARS · EPA EJScreen + AQS + NPL · IMLS, FEMA NRI, LSC, USDA, NCES · GovParti county-records registry. Per-metric provenance and the exact computation for every index is documented in GovParti's internal-equations appendix and available on request.