This State of Knoxville report springs from a partnership between the Thriving Cities Group and Connect Knox. Thriving Cities was commissioned to collect and synthesize the various reports written about Knoxville, Knox County, and the surrounding community and put that and other quantitative data into conversation with the expressed desires of Knoxvillians, as seen through the Connect Knox Community Survey conducted by Survature over the course of the summer of 2017. The report is organized by the Human Ecology Endowments and highlights the ways each of the items within an endowment connects to or influences other parts of social life.