Data Dashboards

Dec 11, 2025 | Uncategorized

Information in one convenient location!

For years, finding clear, consistent information about ongoing projects, land uses, and data resources required searching across many different sources. Local governments, planning partners, and community members often had to piece together details from multiple platforms. Thanks to the dedication of several partner organizations, new data dashboards now bring this information together in one convenient place. Below you will find three dashboards, with more to come, designed to make exploring local data easier, faster, and more accessible for everyone.

Lancaster County Clean Water Hub

Explore local Best Management Practices and Water Quality data through a dashboard experience to see how the Countywide Action Plan (CAP) has been driving momentum in Lancaster County. The Lancaster CAP outlines Lancaster’s path for reducing 6.4 million lbs. of nitrogen and 275,000 lbs. of phosphorus.

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Chesapeake Bay Watershed Data Dashboard

The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Data Dashboard is an online tool that improves access to scientific and technical information essential for water quality and watershed planning. It brings together updated datasets on water quality trends, living resources, and restoration needs, helping environmental managers understand conditions across the region. The dashboard also highlights opportunities for restoration, BMP selection, implementation progress, and land conservation.

Data for the Targeting Restoration and BMP Implementation modules is supplied by the Chesapeake Assessment Scenario Tool, which allows users to explore trends in animal populations, nutrient applications, land use acres, and nutrient and sediment loads. Through this tool, users can track BMP progress, identify priority locations for new practices, and monitor jurisdictional advancement toward Watershed Implementation Plan goals and the reductions required to meet the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load.

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Lancaster County Planning (LCP) Data Dashboard

The LCP Data Dashboard was created as a centralized data resource for local governments, planning partners, and the broader community. It features data about how Lancaster County has changed since the 2018 adoption of places2040, the Lancaster County Comprehensive Plan.

The Data Dashboard examines county, regional, and municipal data covering five topics: 1) Regional Planning, 2) Demographics, 3) Housing, 4) Transportation, and 5) Economy.

It features:

The most up-to-date municipality-specific data;
Interactive maps of both countywide and municipal information; and
Charts and graphs that can be customized on either the county or municipal scale.

The Data Dashboard includes data from federal and state sources, public transportation providers that serve Lancaster County, and Lancaster County’s Planning and GIS Departments. The data will be updated annually to maintain relevance, based on new releases from our federal, state, and local sources.

You can access the LCP Data Dashboard through its new landing page. This page will also feature data dashboards developed by our planning partners to not duplicate local efforts. Some downloadable data is also made available for reference use. To help us measure the dashboard’s reach, please consider placing a link on any relevant section of your website. Simply let us know once the Data Dashboard link is live.

With the LCP Data Dashboard, users can:

Compare how municipalities are performing across the various included topics, as well as how they are doing compared with neighboring municipalities, their region, and the overall county;
Examine how various land use features intersect with available data;
Identify policy and potential infrastructural gaps and devise strategies to bridge them;
Save money on costly GIS software;
Save time on preliminary data and geospatial research;
Utilize the dashboard to supplement the plan review process;
Research and develop data-driven storytelling based on recent planning and land use trends; and
Follow how Lancaster County Planning is progressing towards its strategic goals.