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When it comes to building social trust, three things matter: trusting behavior, trusting intentions, and trusting spaces. We’ve analyzed which of these are strongest for every neighborhood in the US.
Weave’s Social Trust Index and Map show the strength of certain neighborhood traits that are correlated with social trust. Trusting behaviors, intentions, and spaces are judged separately, but they influence and complement each other. You can think of them as the ecosystem that supports building relationships and trust in a community.
Trusting Behaviors reflects how actively engaged people are in community life.
Trusting Intentions captures whether people feel connected to and invested in the community around them — even before they act on it.
Trusting Spaces identifies whether people have physical places where they can meet and build relationships with neighbors.
Defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, block groups are the smallest geographic unit for which a wide range of demographic and socioeconomic data is publicly available. Each contains roughly 600 to 3,000 residents.
Variable scores are combined within each sub-dimension and re-ranked using the same method, producing sub-dimension scores. Sub-dimension scores are then combined within each category and re-ranked again, producing the three category scores used for Trusting Behaviors, Trusting Intentions, and Trusting Spaces. The three category scores are then combined and re-ranked one final time to produce the overall Social Trust Index score.
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What if you knew the strength of trusting behaviors, trusting intentions, and trusting spaces in your own community? Not in your city, county, or your zip code, but in your own neighborhood? How might you use that information to create belonging and trust with your neighbors?
If you have further questions, contact Weave at trustmap@aspeninstitute.org.
Organizations that run a trusting space can partner with Weave to add it to the map.