Community Progress

San Antonio’s Community Vision is made up of nine community results and 56 indicators that measure progress toward those results. Each January, SA2020 updates the indicators with the most recent available data. In this year’s update, see where San Antonio stands on shared goals and read how you can get involved to help achieve the shared vision.
Overview of Latest Community Data

San Antonio's Community Vision

Explore the nine Community Results—defining where we want to be in the year 2030—that make up San Antonio’s shared vision.

Arts
Culture
Historic Preservation
Creative Economy

Result:

In 2030, San Antonio leads the world as a creative community. Here, the arts are integral to culture, history, and global connection. The arts strengthen the health of our community, help drive our economy, and enhance our quality of life.

Innovation
Economic Development
Quality of Life
Entrepreneurship
Workers
Local Business

Result:

In 2030, through world-class innovation, cross-sector collaboration, and business development, San Antonio ensures the economic well-being of the people who live here.

Physical Health
Mental Health
Health Access
Food Security

Result:

In 2030, San Antonians are among the healthiest in the nation in a community that provides comprehensive support and resources for physical and mental lifelong well-being.

Community
Leadership
Institutional Accountability
Equity
Civic Engagement
Collaboration

Result:

In 2030, our entire community takes responsibility for our collective well-being. San Antonio fosters leaders across the community who collaborate to reach shared goals. Institutions across sectors value community-based knowledge and build trusted relationships.

Early Childhood Education
K-12 Education
Higher Ed
Lifelong Learning
Youth Development

Result:

In 2030, San Antonio invests in all students. We provide the best education in the nation and lifelong learning opportunities that cultivate critical thinkers and problem-solvers who proudly call San Antonio their home.

Neighborhoods
Community
Home
Parks & Green Spaces
Affordable Housing
Growth

Result:

In 2030, San Antonio neighborhoods are welcoming, safe, and affordable. They provide the foundation for smart growth and prosperous futures for those who live in them.

Downtown
Neighborhoods
Tourism
Center City
Livability

Result:

In 2030, Downtown is the heart of San Antonio. It is an inviting center of vibrant activity where San Antonians live, learn, work, and play, businesses flourish, and visitors return.

Environment
Climate Action
Resiliency
Sustainability
Natural Resources
Green Economy

Result:

In 2030, San Antonio is a model for responsible and responsive resource management. Recognizing the significance of natural resources to our well-being, we ensure a sustainable and resilient future through climate action and adaptation.

Transportation
Public Transit
Accessibility
Connectivity
Walkability
Micro-Mobility

Result:

In 2030, San Antonio’s multi-modal transportation system is safe, accessible, and convenient. Reliable transportation meets community needs, connecting everyone who walks, rides, drives, or wheels to their desired destination.

Progress Snapshot

This snapshot offers a look at where San Antonio stands on the 2030 goals. But to look at an indicator merely as moving closer or further away from the goal misses the opportunity to see a more complete picture, where impact is interrelated across all indicators. Follow our tips for how to explore the community data with curiosity.

How To Explore the Community Data

Note: The flat lines at 0% show indicators that have baseline data only. The snapshot does not visualize 15 Indicators that are still In Development.

Note: The flat lines at 0% show indicators that have baseline data only. The snapshot does not visualize 15 Indicators that are still In Development.

Calls to Action

Civic engagement is both the foundation of the shared Community Vision and its own Community Result, which reads, in part, “Our entire community takes responsibility for our collective well-being.” After exploring the Community Results that you’re most passionate about and asking critical questions of the data, consider the power you have to affect change and commit to a call to action.

  • Spread the word about San Antonio’s shared Community Vision within your own circles.
  • Explore San Antonio’s Community Data to understand where and how we have made progress, and where work remains. Consider the ways in which you influence the community and use this information to lead change.
  • Connect with SA2020 Nonprofit Partners and volunteer your time or donate dollars. Interested in serving on a Nonprofit Board? Consider joining us for the next round of The Board Game! 
  • Support SA2020 in driving progress toward the shared Community Vision by donating monthly.
  • Hold elected officials and policymakers accountable to allocating resources and creating policies informed by the needs of the community.
  • Vote in every election (national, state, and local), if you’re eligible. For a local, one-stop resource with FAQs, links, and information, visit ilovesanantonio.org (powered by SA2020).

Nonprofits, Foundations/Funders, Government and Public Institutions, Corporations, Education Institutions, and Member/Trade Organizations

  • Become an SA2020 Partner and align your organization’s efforts to Community Results
  • Make data-informed, race-conscious decisions by exhaustively documenting your organizational outcomes and measuring your performance to make sure the programs and efforts you generate are meeting community need. Need help? SA2020 facilitates this work. Email info@sa2020.org.
  • Use SA2020’s Community Data to help inform and strengthen your organization’s work.
  • Share San Antonio’s progress toward the shared Community Vision with your own circles.
  • Learn more about San Antonio’s Community Vision and SA2020’s work through a presentation. 
  • Learn about the relationship between reaching San Antonio’s Community Vision and racial equity.
  • Work with SA2020 to lead tailored Advancing Racial Equity trainings for your team or organization. 
  • Ask yourself, “How does the work I’m doing help move the needle on San Antonio’s Community Vision?”
  • Commit to responsible, race-conscious data analysis and storytelling. Need help? SA2020 facilitates this work. Email info@SA2020.org.
  • Learn about the relationship between reaching San Antonio’s Community Vision and racial equity. 
  • Work with SA2020 to lead tailored Advancing Racial Equity trainings for your team or organization. 
  • Use SA2020’s Community Data to tell more complete stories about San Antonio’s progress (including incremental change) and racial inequities.
  • Engage SA2020 Partners as content experts.
  • Ask yourself, “Does this story highlight institutional barriers? Does it raise the awareness that impact is interrelated across Community Results? Does it showcase how change requires institutions across sectors working together?”
  • Use SA2020’s Community Data to help ensure policies and budgets meet the needs of San Antonians.
  • Learn about the relationship between reaching San Antonio’s Community Vision and racial equity.
  • Work with SA2020 to lead tailored Advancing Racial Equity trainings for your team.
  • Engage SA2020 Partners as content experts.
  • Collaborate with nonprofit organizations in your City Council District to co-create policies.
  • Promote increased collaboration with multi-sector organizations to strengthen targeted policies.
  • Share San Antonio’s progress toward the shared Community Vision with your constituents.

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Friends and Partners,

The power of a shared Community Vision is not just in what it says, but for what it pushes us to accomplish together.

Twice now—in 2010 and 2020—San Antonians have come together to create shared goals. This provides the specificity necessary for tracking progress toward a visionary future and holding institutions accountable to the community. 

In this year’s update, SA2020 is reporting on 56 Community Indicators from 27 sources. We share more than 80 local, regional and national reports and research to help tell a more complete story. This is the first glance at how San Antonio is doing in relation to the goals set for 2030.

SA2020 is using baseline data from 2019, when available. In doing so, the 2030 goals demand that we recover from the crisis and remain visionary. (Baseline data refers to the first year of data that informs the decade-long goal. At least one additional year beyond the baseline data must be known to report on progress.)

In 12 instances (21% of the Indicators), only baseline data is available. This is because the Census data for 2020 was unavailable due to the COVID-19 crisis, the Indicator is newly tracked by SA2020 and historical data does not exist, or SA2020 changed how the Indicator is measured and historical data does not exist.

In 15 instances (27% of the Indicators), the measure is still in development. While San Antonians prioritized increased accessibility and historic preservation, for example, SA2020 is still working with Partner organizations to identify how to track these shared goals.

Achieving the shared Community Vision requires targeted, race-conscious interventions to end systemic inequities. We know this because the first decade of progress proved it. As we continue to face the COVID-19 crisis, SA2020’s community data provides the information necessary to inform these kinds of interventions and mitigate the long-term effects of inequities now exacerbated by the crisis. 

San Antonio’s Community Vision offers us a roadmap to a better future.

– Team SA2020
(Ariane, Audrey, Gladys, Kiran, & Mary Kate)

How to Explore the Community Data

  1. Explore the community data from each of the nine Result pages. As you do, we invite you to be curious: “Why is this Indicator moving?” “Why is this Indicator not moving?” “What can Related Indicators tell me about the bigger picture?” “How can I use my influence and experience to make an impact on the shared vision?” Each Result page shows the Indicators prioritized by the community to measure San Antonio’s progress toward the shared vision.
  1. Indicators are conditions of well-being for a total population. The icons following the Result statement show you the status of each indicator: 1) On Track to reach goal by 2030, 2) Making Progress toward the goal, but not at the rate necessary to reach the goal, 3) Off Track from the goal and moving in the wrong direction, 4) Baseline Only with only the first year of data available, or 5) In Development as SA2020 works to discover what will be measured.
  1. The Result pages offer a snapshot of the data available for each Indicator. For Indicators that have a goal, the trend line shows you the annual progress necessary to reach the goal.
  1. Click on any Indicator and you’ll land on the Indicator Page for a closer look at the data, research, and more information about local efforts. SA2020 disaggregates data, where possible, by race, gender, age, and City Council District. If disaggregated data is available, you’ll see that at the top. (The demographic categories reported are consistent with the sources referenced. SA2020 promotes collecting inclusive demographic data.)
  1. On some Indicator pages, you’ll see a list of “Related Indicators.” This section helps you see how impact in one area of the Community Vision is tied to another.