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Civic record · Boulder

The verdict & benchmarks — Boulder

How the city measures up — against the developed world, its own region, and national and world norms.

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Boulder vs the developed world

Six-nation developed median (USA · UK · France · Germany · Australia · Canada) — ▼ worse than the norm, ▲ better

Fatality-linked news
26.5%here
15.3%benchmark
Road-accident accountability
11.0%here
5.8%benchmark
Enforcement action
23.3%here
20.3%benchmark
Communal politics
5.2%here
3.6%benchmark
Corruption load
0.5%here
1.8%benchmark
Cases concluded
6.1%here
5.5%benchmark
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Communal / polarising political speech

Boulder against world peers and the developed-world median

Boulder
5.2%
India
11.4%
USA
3.6%
UK
3.0%
Pakistan
8.4%
Finland
1.9%
Developed median
3.6%
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Civic cases that reach a conclusion

Boulder against world peers and the developed-world median

Boulder
6.1%
India
2.8%
USA
5.6%
UK
13.3%
Pakistan
3.1%
Finland
7.0%
Developed median
5.5%
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Boulder vs its region — Colorado

Peer cities across Colorado by civic-report volume · communal-rhetoric share shown

Denver18.9Kcommunal 3.5%
Colorado Springs10.4Kcommunal 9.3%
Boulder9,219communal 5.2%
Aurora6,187communal 2.6%
Boulder County4,020communal 5.0%
Pueblo2,535communal 1.7%
Longmont2,427communal 0.8%
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Enforcement action — Boulder vs benchmarks

Share of civic reports that ever reach official action (arrest / charge / verdict)

Boulder
23.3%
India (national)
12.0%
World (global)
14.2%
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Fatality-linked news — Boulder vs benchmarks

Share of civic reports that involve deaths

Boulder
26.3%
India (national)
12.3%
World (global)
15.5%

Prism civic engine — 10.9M located civic news reports · 16.4M political statements · 790k government-money announcements (complete corpora)