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Service Description: EJScreen2.22 demographic index (%ile) relative to Utah census block groups. This layer is not developed by the Utah Department of Environmental Quality. All data and layer information are sourced from EPA: https://gaftp.epa.gov/ejscreen/2023/2.22_September_UseMe/

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ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR
https://www.epa.gov/ejscreen/overview-environmental-indicators-ejscreen 
Key MediumIndicatorDetailsSourceData Year
Air/otherTraffic proximity and volumeCount of vehicles (AADT, avg. annual daily traffic) at major roads within 500 meters, divided by distance in meters (not km)Calculated from 2020 U.S. Department of Transportation traffic data, retrieved 1/19/20232020
DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATOR

https://www.epa.gov/ejscreen/overview-demographic-indicators-ejscreen 

There are seven demographic indicators and a demographic index:

  1. People of color:
    • The percent of individuals in a block group who list their racial status as a race other than white alone and/or list their ethnicity as Hispanic or Latino. That is, all people other than non-Hispanic white-alone individuals. The word "alone" in this case indicates that the person is of a single race, not multiracial.
  2. Low-income:
    • The percent of a block group's population in households where the household income is less than or equal to twice the federal "poverty level."
  3. Unemployment rate:
    • The percent of a block group's population that did not have a job at all during the reporting period, made at least one specific active effort to find a job during the prior 4 weeks, and were available for work (unless temporarily ill).
  4. Linguistic isolation:
    • Percent of people in a block group living in linguistically isolated households. A household in which all members age 14 years and over speak a non-English language and also speak English less than "very well" (have difficulty with English) is linguistically isolated.
  5. Less than high school education:
    • Percent of people age 25 or older in a block group whose education is short of a high school diploma.
  6. Under age 5:
    • Percent of people in a block group under the age of 5.
  7. Over age 64:
    • Percent of people in a block group over the age of 64.

EJScreen includes an index that is based on the above demographic indicators:

  • Demographic Index is based on the average of two demographic indicators; low-income and people of color.
PERCENTAGES & PERCENTILES
  • Percentages (%) are an absolute metric. If a census block group has a demographic indicator of 64%, that means that 64% of people living in that block group - that's 64 out of every 100 people there - are considered minority/low-income. 
  • Percentiles (%ile) are a relative metric. A demographic indicator in the 98th percentile means that the minority/low-income population in that block group is very high: only 2% of block groups in Utah have an equal or higher minority/low-income population. All percentiles in this layer are relative to census block group metrics in the state of Utah (these are not relative to the entire U.S.)


Copyright Text: https://gaftp.epa.gov/ejscreen

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