What is SAVI?

The SAVI Community Information System (www.savi.org) is a one-stop source for data and information for Central Indiana communities and organizations. It provides local data about the social, economic, and physical conditions of neighborhoods, townships, and counties, and other geographic areas such as school districts. SAVI summarizes these data into community profiles and allows users to view and analyze detailed data in interactive maps, charts, and tables.

What is the Purpose of SAVI?

SAVI seeks to build the capacity of organizations and citizens to use information to make a positive impact on Central Indiana through improved decision making and more effective programs and services. SAVI’s goals are to:

• Provide a comprehensive, reliable, and responsive source of local information about Central Indiana communities.
• Build community capacity by helping citizens, organizations, and researchers to use information more effectively.
• Help organizations respond to social issues through more effective policies, programs, research, and actions.

It does this by empowering citizens and organizations with local up-to-date data, providing tools to visualize and analyze the information, training them on its use, and helping them use it for more effective decision-making, policies, programs, and actions.

What is the Geographic Scope of SAVI?

SAVI includes data on eleven counties in Central Indiana, including: Boone Brown Hamiton Hancock Hendricks Johnson Madison Marion Morgan Putnam Shelby

With 60 gigabytes and 20 years of data, SAVI is largest community information system of its type for any metropolitan area in the United States.

National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership

The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) is a collaborative effort by the Urban Institute and local partners to further the development and use of neighborhood-level information systems in local policymaking and community building. SAVI represents Indianapolis as one of thirty-one partner cities.