This indicator displays the percent of acres in a county that are in the Protected Areas Database owned by Local, State, or Federal governments and open to the public. Source United States Geological Survey (USGS) Protected Areas Database, 2023. Source Description The USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is the official inventory…
This indicator reports road ruggedness or topographic variation. Data was obtained from the USDA Area and Road Ruggedness Scales. Source US Department of Agriculture, USDA – Economic Research Service, 2023. Source Description The Economic Research Service (ERS) by the USDA anticipates trends and emerging issues in agriculture, food, the environment, and rural America and to…
The Environmental Justice Index (EJI) is the first national, place-based tool designed to measure the cumulative impacts of environmental burden through the lens of human health and health equity. The EJI scores census tracts using a percentile ranking which represents the proportion of tracts that experience cumulative impacts of environmental burden and injustice equal to…
The Environmental Justice Index (EJI) is the first national, place-based tool designed to measure the cumulative impacts of environmental burden through the lens of human health and health equity. The EJI scores census tracts using a percentile ranking which represents the proportion of tracts that experience cumulative impacts of environmental burden and injustice equal to…
This indicator displays the percent of total acreage in a county that is forested. Source Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium, National Land Cover Database, 2023. Source Description The Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) consortium is a group of federal agencies who coordinate and generate consistent and relevant land cover information at the national scale for a wide…
This indicator reports the percentage of individuals in a county who live reasonably close to a location for physical activity. Locations for physical activity are defined as parks or recreational facilities. The numerator is the 2020 total population living in census blocks with adequate access to at least one location for physical activity (adequate access…