21st Century Cities Initiative

Our third annual Portrait of Baltimore report is out, highlighting key findings from the 2025 Baltimore Area Survey, helping us to understand the experiences and perceptions of residents living in Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Key findings from this year's Portrait of Baltimore report include:
-More survey respondents felt their personal safety had improved and fewer felt their safety had gotten worse than in the previous two years. About one in five area residents felt their safety had improved in 2025, up from one in eight in 2023.
-More than a third of employed residents worried about losing their jobs.
-Just under half of all employed residents worried about finding a job as good as their current one, compared to a third of employed residents two years ago.
-Nearly half of residents who experienced high transportation insecurity worried that the lack of reliable transportation would severely hinder a job search.
-Nearly half of Baltimore city residents were food insecure this year, and more than half of those people were very food insecure based on a measure defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. More than 30% of county residents experienced food insecurity.
https://21cc.jhu.edu/research/a-portrait-of-baltimore-2025/

Join us this Monday, November 10 for a talk with Megan Evans "Racialized Perceptions of Value: Interpreting Risk in the Housing Market". In person at 3505 N Charles Street and online at the QR code link.

Learn more about the recent work of our Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative with updates from the air quality and atmospheric dynamics research teams.

BSEC Research Chats: Air Quality and Atmospheric Dynamics September 18, 2024 research chat updates from the Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative's air quality and atmospheric dynamic science teams. Presenter...