11 Small City Anchor Institutions • Context meds parity eds eds/(eds+meds) income share reliance index 0.6 1.0 2.0 3.0 Anchor institution economic impact relative to national average. (1.0 = national norm) Source: Philadelphia Fed Anchor Economy Dashboard, 2024. Circle size = reliance index. Color = higher education income share of total anchor income. Ann Arbor's reliance of 3.0, more than twice any other city in this group, reflects a regional economy built around a single research university. It serves as a ceiling in this analysis, not a model. New Haven's near-equal split between higher education and hospital income may reflect institutional breadth — or a single institution operating across both sectors. Regional data cannot distinguish between the two. Erie, Pittsburgh, Lehigh Valley, and Meadville share nearly identical anchor profiles: colleges take a share but hospital systems are the primary economic anchors across the corridor. Different cities, same structure. Erie 1.4 Pittsburgh 1.3 Lehigh Valley 1.3 New Haven 2.0 Ann Arbor 3.0 Bridgeport 0.6 Meadville 0.8 Providence 1.2 Anchor Institution Reliance Across the Co-Lab Network
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