30-Day Hospital Readmission by County, 2019
This layer displays the percentage of Medicare inpatient readmissions within 30 days of an acute hospital stay during then reference period.
Roman Catholics
This layer displays the number of Catholic adherents using data from the Association of Religious Data Archives (ARDA).
Heat Index – Average Days Above 99th Percentile
This updated dataset reports the total number of days in which an extreme heat event was above the 99th percentile between 2014-2016 at the county level. Data were obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (EPHTN).
Gross Pollutant Releases
This layer displays the total pounds of toxic pollutants released by industrial and federal facilities.
Pulic Education Revenue, 2021-22
This layer data was obtained from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (CCD) School District Finance Survey. The survey provides finance data for all local education agencies (LEAs) that provide free public elementary and secondary education in the United States. County-level data was generated by CARES by aggregating school-district level…
USGS Structures – Emergency Response Facilities
This layer shows emergency response facilities found in the USGS Structures Dataset
Maximum Temperature – Average Days Above 98th Percentile
This updated dataset reports the total number of days in which an extreme heat event was above a specific threshold in the 95th, 98th, and 99th percentile. Data were obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (EPHTN).
Socioeconomic Status Vulnerability
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), or CDC/ATSDR SVI, is a database that helps emergency response planners and public health officials identify, map, and plan support for communities that will most likely need support before, during, and after a public health…
Per Capita Income, 2019
This layer displays per capita personal income by county. This measure of income is calculated as the total personal income of the residents of an area divided by the population of the area. Per capita personal income is often used as an indicator of consumers’ purchasing power and of the economic well-being of the residents…
EJ Screen Hazardous Waste Proximity
The hazardous waste proximity indicator is reflective of the total count of hazardous waste facilities in each block group within 5 km of the average resident in a block group, divided by distance, calculated as the population-weighted average of blocks in each block group. Hazardous waste facilities are defined as Resource Conservation and Recovery Act…