Occupied Housing Units

This layer displays information from the US 2020 Decennial Census, which provides occupied housing units for all geographic areas. An occupied Housing is when a person or group of persons is living in it at the time of the interview or if the occupants are only temporarily absent, as for example, on vacation. This data was released as part of the decennial census in April 2020. Learn more about this dataset at Census.gov.

Income from Transfer Payments

Layer displays information about personal income from transfer payments from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Local Area Personal Income data series. In personal income, transfer receipts are benefits received by persons for which no current services are performed. They are payments by government and business to individuals and non-profit institutions. Specifically, transfer payment income encompasses all receipts from:

  • Retirement and disability;
  • Medical benefits;
  • Income maintenance benefits (SSI, EITC, SNAP, etc.);
  • Unemployment;
  • Veterans’ benefits;
  • Education and training assistance;
  • Other government benefits;
  • Payments from businesses

For more information, please see the Local Area Personal Income Methodology.

FCC Fabric Location Data, Pct Meeting 25/3+ MBPS Dec, 2022

This layer displays aggregated location based data from the FCC that’s gathered through the Broadband Data Collection program. The number of locations was derived from the number of unique location ids for each block group and aggregated up. Location ids may include multiple units which are not included in our calculations. The number of locations that meet broadband definitions are only for those locations served the required speeds by copper, cable, fiber, or licensed fixed wireless. Satellite, un-licensed fixed wireless, or ‘other’ are not included in our broadband calculations. A location is considered served by wireless alone if it meets the broadband definition (25/3+) by a wireless provider and is not served by any other technology type (not including satellite).

EJ Screen RMP Facility Proximity

The RMP facility proximity is reflective of the total count of RMP facilities in each block group within 5
km of the average resident in a block group, divided by distance, calculated as the population-weighted
average of blocks in each block group

EJ Screen Hazardous Waste Proximity

The hazardous waste proximity indicator is reflective of the total count of hazardous waste facilities in
each block group within 5 km of the average resident in a block group, divided by distance, calculated as
the population-weighted average of blocks in each block group. Hazardous waste facilities are defined as
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) handlers that are either operating TSDFs from RCRA or
reporting LQGs from the 2019 BR.