Census Tract-Level Neighborhood Indices

About

This R code generates the Census Tract-Level Neighborhood Indices (tract_indices) data resource. This dataset is a compilation of several open data products at the census tract-level, including

• Socioeconomic Indices

  • Neighborhood Atlas Area Deprivation Index
  • Childhood Opportunity Index
  • Community Material Deprivation Index
  • Community Resilience
  • Social Deprivation Index
  • Social Vulnerability Index
  • Kreiger Racial and Socioeconomic Index of Concentration at the Extremes

• Environmental Indices

  • EJ Screen

• Food and Medical Care Access Indices

  • USDA Food Access Research Atlas
  • Modified Retail Food Environment Index
  • feedingamerica.org Food Insecurity Percentage
  • Healthcare Professional Shortage and Medically Underserved Areas
  • Walkability Index

See metadata.md for detailed metadata and schema information.

Accessing Data

Read this CSV file into R directly from the release with:

readr::read_csv("https://github.com/geomarker-io/tract_indices/releases/download/v0.3.0/tract_indices.csv")

Metadata can be imported from the accompanying tabular-data-resource.yaml file by using {CODECtools}.

Data Details

• Rounding: All numeric variables are expressed using 3 significant digits.
• Temporality: All census_tract_ids correspond to the 2010 census tract vintage.