Task_1_C228.docx C228 Task 1 C228 Western Governors University NEEDS ASSESSMENT Dem

Task_1_C228.docx  C228   Task 1 C228   Western Governors University  NEEDS ASSESSMENT  Demographics   Sentinel City is an urban, virtual city made up of four different communities. The four communities include, Nightingale Square, Acer Tech Center, Casper Park District and Industrial Heights. The demographics assessment allowed me to find many statistics about Sentinel City. Sentinel city as a whole has a population of 663,862. The age percentage population of Sentinel City includes 7.4% of the population in the five years and younger group, 21.7% of residents are in the less than 18 years of age category, and 10.5% are greater than 65 years old. This leaves the remaining 60.4% of the population in the 18 years to 65 years old group. Sentinel city appears to be home to a slightly diverse population. 80.6% of the population is causasian, 10.4% are African American, 2.0% American Indian/Native Alaskan, 3.7% Asian, 0.2% Hawaiian and 3.1% is two or more races. A good portion of the Sentinel City population is living in poverty. It has been reported that 18.9% of the population is living in poverty. (Healthcare Learning Innovations, 2018)   As I continued to dig deeper into Sentinel City using the demographics assessment, I started to see the major differences in each neighborhood. Nightingale Square is home to 103,974 people. Nightingale Square is one of the nicer, wealthier neighborhoods in Sentinel City. The average income of tenants living here is $269,550. Most people have health insurance as