Number of City park acres per 1,000 population. Tracked by fiscal year and calculated by taking the number of park acres divided by total population and multiplied by 1000.

This graph shows the cities with the most acres of parkland per 1,000 residents in the United States in 2023. In that year, Anchorage, Alaska, had the most parkland per 1,000 residents with approximately 3,022 acres of land.

This dataset includes the Fiscal Year actuals for PARD's eCOMBS measure #3033 - Number of City park acres per 1,000 population. "Number of city park acres per 1,000 population" is a crucial metric that quantifies the availability of green spaces relative to the size of our community. Prioritizing this metric shows PARD's commitment to providing residents with access to recreational areas, promoting physical and mental well-being, and enhancing the overall quality of life. For more information, visit the associated story page: https://datahub.austintexas.gov/stories/s/xib2-kf6u

Developed park acres per 1000 population including developed parks, recreation centers outside of parks, aquatics sites, retention basins, golf course, and Convention Center. Population data is based on U.S. Census Data. Acres according to PRCF Maintenance & Development as documented in the ArcGIS Parks SDE geodatabase.

Since PARD's eCOMBS measure #3033 - Number of City Park Acres per 1,000 Population is one of the items the department is asked about the most, the Planning and Development Division decided to post a story page and the fiscal year actuals.

This table shows the number of park acres per 1000 residents living in San Diego from 2015 to 2022.

This indicator provides information about publicly available recreational space per capita (acres per 1,000 population).Publicly available recreational spaces play an important role in communities, often conferring myriad health benefits. Access to places for physical activity, such as parks, trails, playgrounds, and community centers with recreational facilities, has been shown to prevent heart disease, stroke, diabetes, depression, and many types of cancer.Community recreational spaces also provide opportunities for park-related interventions that may reduce violent crime; serve as locations for outreach to increase access to and enrollment in health and social services; and provide space for community gardens and farmers’ markets, thereby increasing community access to fresh produce. Moreover, parks and other green spaces have environmental benefits that can protect community health through improved air quality and reduced impacts from the urban heat island effect .For more information about the Community Health Profiles Data Initiative, please see the initiative homepage.

This data collection provides selected economic, social, demographic, and political information for 48 states of the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. Variables describe population characteristics, such as the number of adults aged 65 and over, the number of dentists and physicians, the number of patients in mental hospitals, the death rates of white and non-white infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births, respectively, the number of recipients of public assistance such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), elementary and secondary school enrollment, enrollment in vocational programs, the total number of students in higher education, the number of those conferred with M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, and the number of workers in research experiment stations. Other variables provide economic information, such as personal income per capita, average monthly payment per recipient of some public assistance programs, average salary per month for full-time state and local employees, state and local government revenues and expenditures, and various intergovernmental revenues from the federal government for certain services. Additional variables record crime statistics, such as the number of robbery, burglary, larceny, auto theft, assault, rape, and murder offenses per 100,000 of the population. There are also variables that give information on each state's topography, such as the acreage of state parks, total farm acreage, municipal road mileage, and total unsurfaced road mileage.