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Mapping America's Close Distressed Areas


The Distressed Communities Index ranks the economical well-being of every community inwards the United States. It uses vii unlike metrics to assess the economical province of every zip-code area. The 2017 DCI Map allows yous to persuasion the well-being score of every zip-code inwards the USA too to persuasion each of the private economical metrics for each area.

The vii metrics which are used to make upwardly one's heed the Distress Score are:
  • No High School Diploma 
  • Housing Vacancy Rate 
  • Adults Not Working 
  • Poverty Rate 
  • Median Income 
  • Change inwards Employment 
  • Change inwards Businesses
If yous pick out an private zip-code expanse on the interactive map yous tin persuasion the scores for each of these private metrics every bit good every bit the overall Distress Score.


The marker of menage unit of measurement debt is not i of the metrics used inwards the Distressed Communities Index simply it could besides live on used every bit an indicator of the economical well-being of unlike communities. The Urban Institute's Debt inwards America visualizes debt levels inwards every county inwards the USA. The map allows yous to persuasion the median debt levels inwards a county too compare them to debt levels for the province too the province every bit a whole. The map besides allows yous to persuasion the average household income inwards every state.

Using the map sidebar yous tin pick out from a publish of debt metrics, including the part too value of medical debt inwards each county. If yous too therefore click on a county on the map yous tin persuasion the debt totals for the county inwards the map sidebar. The debt totals for the county, the province too for the whole province are besides shown beneath the map.


Esri's Predominant Income Range past times Households map shows how much coin people are earning inwards each census tract inwards the United States. The map uses income information from the 5-year American Community Survey inwards 2016 to demonstrate the income make of the close people inwards each tract. Using the map yous tin explore the reality of income inequality inwards every local neighborhood.

While exploring the map yous mightiness location patterns which recur inwards states, cities too communities across the country. For event yous should live on able to location the income separate betwixt many underground too rural areas. In college towns yous mightiness run across depression income student-dominated neighborhoods surrounded past times wealthier neighborhoods.

The map reveals that a publish of cities, such every bit Philadelphia, Seattle too Houston convey a thriving downtown core. While cities such every bit Detroit too Cleveland convey urban centers which are struggling or dying.


Food Insecurity inwards the United States is an interactive map which shows the publish of people who request nutrient assistance inwards each county inwards the United States. The map uses information from Feeding America’s annual Map the Meal Gap project.

There are a publish of clusters of counties, peculiarly inwards the southward east, which convey high levels of nutrient insecurity. Many of these, for event inwards the Mississippi Delta, are inwards areas where agriculture too nutrient production are the biggest industries.

If yous pick out a province on the map yous tin persuasion a detailed overview of nutrient insecurity inwards the state. You tin besides click on private counties to detect the nutrient insecurity charge per unit of measurement too the publish of nutrient insecure people inwards the selected county.