Sacramento Community Vulnerability Index

This indicator provides the percentage of the population in a census tract for whom 12th grade was their highest level of education.

The Census Bureau defines this category as excluding people who attended college but did not receive a degree and people who received an associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, or professional or doctorate degree. People who reported completing the 12th grade but did not receive a diploma are included.

The map is based on  Esri's rendition  of US Census  American Community Survey  5-year estimates (2016 - 2020).

The indicator provides the percentage of the population in a census tract who spend more than 30% of their household income on gross rent.

Gross rent is the contract rent plus the estimated average monthly cost of utilities (electricity, gas, sewer and water) and fuels such as oil or coal. Gross rent as a percentage of household income is a computed ratio of monthly rent to monthly household income. 

The map is based on  Esri's rendition  of US Census  American Community Survey  5-year estimates (2016 - 2020).

This indicator provides the percentage of the population of individuals and families in a census tract that are below the  federal poverty threshold. 

To determine a person’s poverty status, one compares the person’s total family income in the last 12 months with the poverty threshold appropriate for that person’s family size and composition. If the total income of the person’s family is less than the threshold appropriate for that family, then the person, and family, are considered below the poverty level.

The total number of people below the poverty level is the sum of people in families and the number of unrelated individuals with incomes in the last 12 months below the poverty threshold. People who are institutionalized, people in military group quarters, in college dormitories and unrelated individuals under 15 years old were excluded from the numerator and denominator when calculating poverty rates. 

The map is based on  Esri's rendition  of US Census  American Community Survey  5-year estimates (2016 - 2020).

This indicator provides the percentage of the population in a census tract who are unemployed.

All civilians 16 years old and over are classified as unemployed if they 1) were neither at work, nor with a job but not at work, during the reference week, and 2) were actively looking for work during the last four weeks prior to when they were surveyed, and 3) were available to start a job. 

Also included as unemployed are civilians who did not work at all during the reference week, were waiting to be called back to a job from which they had been laid off and were available for work except for temporary illness. 

The map is based on  Esri's rendition  of US Census  American Community Survey  5-year estimates (2016 - 2020).

This indicator gives the percentage of the non-institutionalized population in a census tract who are disabled.

To capture a variety of characteristics that encompass the definition of a disability, the Census Bureau identifies serious difficulty with six basic areas of functioning: hearing, vision, cognitive, ambulatory, self-care, and independent living.

The map is based on  Esri's rendition  of US Census  American Community Survey  5-year estimates (2016 - 2020).

This indicator uses CalEnviroScreen 4.0's pollution burden score which represents exposure to 13 pollutants and other environmental health hazards.

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The California Healthy Places Index 3.0, developed by the  Public Health Alliance of Southern California , is a powerful tool to explore the community conditions that impact life expectancy. The HPI was created to disrupt structural inequities by using data to create change. The HPI helps prioritize public and private investments, resources, and programs in neighborhoods where they are needed most.

The HPI combines 25 community characteristics, like access to healthcare, housing, education, and more, into a single indexed HPI score. The healthier a community, the higher the HPI score. The HPI applies a positive frame focusing on assets a community has have they can build on, rather than what is lacking. Each HPI indicator is linked to our  Policy Action Guide , which highlights equitable solutions to improving community health.

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