Mining Dependent Counties

Mining dependent counties are those where at least 11 percent of the county’s annual average earnings came from mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction or at least 7 percent of the annual average number of jobs in the county were in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction over the 3-year average of 2019,…

EJ Screen Traffic Proximity

The traffic proximity indicator is based on AADT count divided by distance in meters from the Census block centroid. The proximity score is based on the traffic within a search radius of 500 meters (or further if none is found in that radius). This distance was selected to be large enough to capture the great…

Earnings Income, 2019

This layer displays information about earnings income by county. Per capita measures of income are calculated as the total component income of the residents of an area divided by the population of the area. Percentages are calculated by dividing the total component income by the total personal income. Information used in this map layer is…