CALIFORNIA BUSINESS MINUTE
Resilient Regions
07-12-11
Hi, I am Tim Johnson and welcome to the California Business Minute.
How easy is it for a region to respond to local and national challenges? The Resilience
Capacity Index, (RCI) is a tool that provides insight on what regions are best suited to
respond to such challenges according to the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC
Berkeley.
The Index looks at economic capacity, socio demographic capacity and community
connectivity capacity. The index ranks regions in five categories: very high, high,
medium, low and very low.
TOP TEN MOST RESILIENT REGIONS
1. Rochester, MN
2. Bismarck, ND
3. Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
4. Barnstable, Town, MA
5. Dubuque, IA
6. Cedar Rapids, IA
7. Appleton, WI
8. Boulder, CO
9. Worcester, MA
10. Washington DC – Arlington-Alexandria
It appears that if you want to be resilient you will need a snow shovel.
Meanwhile, as it pertains to measuring California cities there were no cities that were
in the category of very high. There were three that were in the category of high: Santa
Rosa-Petaluma at 76, San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara at 87 and San Francisco-Fremont-
Oakland at 88. There were four regions in the category of medium: San Diego-Carlsbad-
San Marcos- at 186, Napa at 188, Oxnard-Thousand Oaks –Ventura at 190 and Vallejo-
Fairfield at 202. There were five regions in the category of low: Santa Cruz at 217,
San Luis Obispo 2331, Sacramento at 235, Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta at 256 and
Redding at 287. There were fourteen regions in the every low category. Los Angeles-
Long Beach-Santa Ana at 302, Riverside San Bernardino-Ontario at 310, Chico at 312,
Stockton at 324, Modesto at 329, Yuba City at 337, Fresno at 344, Salinas at 346,
Madera-Chowchilla at 351, Bakersfield-Delano at 352, Visalia at 355, Hanford-Corcoran
at 357, El Centro at 358 and Merced at 359.
Of interest there highest ranked city from Texas – Austin was ranked 168. To see the
full ranking go to http://brr.berkeley.edu/rci/data/ranking
I am Tim Johnson and this has been the California Business Minute.
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