This indicator reports the employment and household entropy score from EPA’s Smart Location Dababase, 2021. This score represents the characteristics of the built environment known to be supportive of walking, especially mixed community land use. The higher the score, the higher diversity in community land use. Source Environmental Protection Agency, EPA – Smart Location Database,…
The National Walkability Index (2021) is a nationwide index score developed by EPA that ranks block groups according to their relative walkability using selected variables on density, diversity of land uses, and proximity to transit from the Smart Location Database. The block groups are assigned their final National Walkability Index scores on a scale of…
This indicator measures the proportion of the population living within 0.5 miles of a GTFS or fixed-guideway transit stop. Transit data is available from over 200 transit agencies across the United States, as well as all existing fixed-guideway transit service in the U.S. This includes rail, streetcars, ferries, trolleys, and some bus rapid transit systems….
This indicator reports total road network density in terms of road miles per square mile. Source Environmental Protection Agency, EPA – Smart Location Database, 2021. Source Description The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Smart Location Database (SLD) is a nationwide geographic data resource for measuring location efficiency. It includes more than 90 attributes summarizing characteristics such…