PELHAM, N.Y., June 11, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Burbio.com, the industry leader in aggregating community event information for digital media, consumers and civic partners, today announced the launch of a Community Activity Index that measures in-person community event activity as the country emerges from the COVID-19 lockdowns.
"As stay-at-home orders took hold across the US, in-person activity for local government, non-profit and community groups came to a halt along with things like going to restaurants and movie theaters," said Julie Roche, Burbio co-founder. "Many groups moved to virtual offerings, but now we are seeing the re-emergence of traditional community activities."
Burbio's technology reads source sites for over 150,000 school, government, library, arts, volunteer, and civic organizations from all 50 states. For the Community Activity Index, Burbio measures library, government, chamber of commerce, arts & recreation, and civic & volunteer groups at the county level and calculates an index on a 0-100 scale based on the level of groups having live events. The county-level indices are population weighted to create state and national level indices. All indices are updated daily based on live events being announced.
Burbio's national index was zero as of Memorial Day as only a handful of local Chambers and scattered community organizations were active. Since then the index has grown to 11.4% and is growing daily. Chambers and government sponsored recreation programs for children have been the fastest growing categories, and life has emerged fastest in less populated areas of the country.
States with the highest overall index are South Dakota (46.7), Utah (30.3) and Idaho (27.3). At the county level, Kendall and Comal County, TX, are tied with blocks of counties in Wisconsin, South Carolina and South Dakota as the most "active" in the country.
As expected, the lowest scores for community life – zero – are concentrated in regions hit hardest by the virus and/or with the strictest lockdowns. In addition to NYC, Cook County (Chicago), LA County, San Francisco County, and King County (Seattle) are at zero, as well as many of their surrounding suburban counties.
"These numbers are a measure of community health," said Roche. "Engaging with these institutions is the way residents support their communities and socialize with neighbors. They act as a source of mental and physical well being for everyone from children to senior citizens, and are a source of economic vitality."
About Burbio:
Burbio.com is the industry leader in aggregating school, government, library and community event information for delivery over mobile, web, video, email and voice. Burbio's technology organizes and streams millions of hyper-local events and keeps them automatically updated Burbio works with digital media companies, local broadcasters, real estate firms, Smart City partners such as governments and libraries, national non-profits, plus corporate partners who use this local community event information to engage consumers and better manage and predict their business.
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