This indicator reports the estimated lifetime inhalation cancer risk from the analyzed carcinogens in ambient outdoor air. The value of the indicator is persons per million lifetime. Areas with higher air toxics cancer risk levels (i.e., more harmful to human health) are placed higher in percentile (national ranking). The percentile could be interpreted as, for…
This indicator reports the respiratory Hazard Index (HI) from the analyzed carcinogens in ambient outdoor air. The HI is the sum of hazard indices for those air toxics with reference concentrations based on respiratory endpoints, where each hazard index is the ratio of exposure concentration in the air to the health-based reference concentration set by…
This indicator reports the percentage of adults age 18 and older who report having a lack of social and emotional support. Source Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2022.Accessed via the PLACES Data Portal. Source Description The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a collaborative project of the Centers…
The H+T Index measures the affordability of housing by including transportation costs at a home’s location to better reflect the true cost of households’ location choices. 15 percent of household income is considered to be an attainable goal for transportation affordability while 30 percent be the housing affordability standard, adding up to the affordability defined…
The degree to which a community exhibits certain social conditions, including high poverty, low percentage of vehicle access, or crowded households, may affect that community’s ability to prevent human suffering and financial loss in the event of disaster. These factors describe a community’s social vulnerability. Source Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National…
This indicator reports the total and rate of illness and injury cases per 1,000 full-time workers in all establishment sizes (1 to over 1,000 employees per establishment) in the United States for the latest year. Data are from the Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics which produces a…