Neighborhood Needs Assessment

The Neighborhood Needs Assessment survey was taken by all Western Heights residents and the broader Western Heights community residents.

This survey affirmed the resident’s concerns about safety outdoors and the need to raise household incomes and life expectancies, to combat childhood poverty, and to provide improvements to the areas of transportation, opportunities for physical activity, access to healthy food, and support for single female heads-ofhousehold.

The median household income of the Western Heights census tract is less than 1/2 the Knoxville median household income and about 1/3 the median household income of Knox County. More than 50% of residents live below the poverty line.

Demographics of the respondents to the Neighborhood Needs Assessment