Student Loan Debt, 2022

This layer displays debt information at the state and county levels from the Urban Institute’s 2023 Debt in America. Data includes medical debt, student loan debt, automobile debt, retail debt and any debt in collections based on February 2022 credit bureau records.

Dominant Land Cover Class, 2021

This Layer was calculated using the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium’s National Land Cover Database. Percentages of each class were calculated using the number of class pixels present in the county or tract, divided by the total number of pixels in the county or tract.

National Land Cover Dataset, 2021

The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) serves as the definitive Landsat-based, 30-meter resolution, land cover database for the Nation. NLCD provides spatial reference and descriptive data for characteristics of the land surface such as thematic class (for example, urban, agriculture, and forest), percent impervious surface, and percent tree canopy cover. NLCD supports a wide variety of Federal, State, local, and nongovernmental applications that seek to assess ecosystem status and health, understand the spatial patterns of biodiversity, predict effects of climate change, and develop land management policy. NLCD products are created by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium, a partnership of Federal agencies led by the U.S. Geological Survey.