Description
This is Census 2020 block data specifically formatted for use by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in-development Environmental Justice Analysis Multisite (EJAM) tool, which uses R code to find which block centroids are within X miles of each specified point (e.g., regulated facility), and to find those distances. The datasets have latitude and longitude of each block's internal point, as provided by Census Bureau, and the FIPS code of the block and its parent block group. The datasets also include a weight for each block, representing this block's Census 2020 population count as a fraction of the count for the parent block group overall, for use in estimating how much of a given block group is within X miles of a specified point or inside a polygon of interest. The datasets also have an effective radius of each block, which is what the radius would be in miles if the block covered the same area in square miles but were circular. The datasets also have coordinates in units that facilitate building a quadtree index of locations. They are in R data.table format, saved as .rda or .arrow files to be read by R code.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| block group unique id to block group FIPS | Unknown | bgid2fips.rda | Open resource |
| US blocks with unique id and Census 2020 FIPS code | Unknown | blockid2fips.rda | Open resource |
| block internal point coordinates in latitude and longitude, and unique block id | Unknown | blockpoints.rda | Open resource |
| population weights and effective radius for every US Census 2020 block | Unknown | unique block id and weight that is Census 2020 block population as fraction of parent block group Census 2020 population, and effective radius in miles that is what radius would be if block of this size were a circle | Open resource |
| large data.table of all US blocks with location of each internal point in xyz format for indexing as quadtree index | Unknown | quaddata.rda | Open resource |