Mayor Cherelle L. Parker launches a new website to show the city’s progress on her campaign promises
The website, called Philly Stat 360, shows the city’s progress on more than 30 indicators that fall under categories including: Safer, Cleaner, Greener, and Economic Opportunity.
As her first year in office comes to a close, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker on Tuesday unveiled a new government website designed to show progress her administration has made on a variety of campaign promises and key initiatives, ranging from reducing the number of homicides and drug overdoses to increasing trash pickup rates and demolishing unsafe buildings.
The website, called Philly Stat 360, shows the city’s progress on more than 30 indicators that fall under categories including: Safer, Cleaner, Greener, and Economic Opportunity — Parker’s oft-used slogan for how she wants to improve the city in her first term.
Parker conceived of the website while running for office last year. She created the program, which is housed in the Mayor’s Office, through an executive order, and its 15-employee office has a nearly $2 million annual budget.
Kristin Bray, Parker’s chief legal counsel who heads the Philly Stat effort, called it “the cornerstone of [Parker’s] administration’s commitment to an open, accountable, and responsive government.”
“This effort helps to demystify government,” Parker said. “And it tells the public what we want to do, why we do it, and how we do it — and how they can be a part of it.”
The website is not an open data website in the same way as Open Data Philly, a catalog of city data that was launched under former Mayor Michael Nutter’s administration and continues to operate. Unlike Open Data Philly, users can’t directly download the data that informs Philly Stat 360.
Instead, the website regularly updates with information pulled from agencies including the Police Department and the Department of Licenses and Inspections and visually shows whether the city is meeting its own goals.
For example, the website currently shows that the city is surpassing its goal of reducing homicides by at least 10% this year — killings are down 37% compared to this point in 2023. However, the city is not reaching its goal of clearing illegal dumping sites within five days of receiving a report about one. Currently, the average time it takes for the city to clean a site is 16 days.
Bray said the website will eventually display more progress indicators beyond the 30 there now.