Food Desert Census Tracts, 2019

This layer displays the location of Food Deserts across the United States based on conditions in 2015. The Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) Working Group considers a food desert as a low-income census tract where a substantial number or share … Continued

Presidential Election Results, 2020

2020 election results at the county-level are scraped from results published by Fox News, Politico, and the New York Times and made available on GitHub. Total votes cast were divided by the total citizen voting age population as reported by … Continued

Food Desert Census Tracts, Change 2015-2019

This layer displays the change in census tracts labeled as Food Deserts from 2015 to 2019. The Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) Working Group considers a food desert as a low-income census tract where a substantial number or share of … Continued

School Shootings

This layer displays the location of school shootings across the country. Shootings are categorized by the situation and the size varies by the number of victims.

Heart Disease Hospitalizations by County, 2016-18

This layer displays the rate hospitalization for patients with an initial hospital admission for coronary heart disease. Data are reported at the county level for the 2016-18 three-year period. Data are obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … Continued

Heart Attack Hospitalizations by County, 2016-18

This layer displays the rate hospitalization for patients with an initial hospital admission for heart attack. Data are reported at the county level for the 2016-18 three-year period. Data are obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) … Continued

Tobacco Product Compliance Check Violations Involving Minors

This layer displays information obtained from analysis of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Compliance Check Inspections of Tobacco Product Retailers database. This database contains address-level records for each retailer inspection – including decision date, violation type, and tobacco product … Continued

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 … Continued