Description
The online tool highlights how close in walking distance DC census tracts are to various features of the built environment spanning nine key drivers--education, employment, financial institutions, housing, transportation, food environment, medical care, outdoor environment, and community safety--and 41 data measures. The visualizations include values for each DC census tract as well as percentile values for each of the nine drivers, to allow for comparisons across DC.
Education
- Proximity to schools
- Proximity to modernized schools
- Proximity to playgrounds
- Proximity to crossing guards
- Safe routes to school
- Proximity to libraries
- Access to wireless hotspots
- Access to broadband internet
- Proximity to recreation centers
Employment
- Travel time to work
Financial Institutions
- Proximity to banking institutions
- Proximity to check cashing institutions
Housing
- Housing stock quality
- Share of homes built since 1970
- Distribution of affordable housing
- Proximity to vacant or blighted houses
Transportation
- Proximity to Metro bus
- Proximity to Metro station
- Proximity to Capital Bikeshare locations
- Access to bike lanes
- Sidewalk quality
- Parking availability
Food Environment
- Proximity to grocery stores
- Low Food Access areas
- Proximity to farmers markets
- Availability of healthy food within stores
- Proximity to restaurants
- Proximity to liquor stores
Medical Care
- Proximity to health care facilities
- Proximity to mental health facilities and providers
Outdoor Environment
- Tree canopy
- Proximity to parks
- Proximity to trails
- Presence of mix of land uses
- Positive land use
- Flood zones
Community Safety
- Proximity to vacant lots
- Streetlight coverage
- Proximity to police department locations
- Proximity to fire stations
- Proximity to High Injury Network Corridors
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | https://opendata.dc.gov/apps/DCGIS::built-environment-indicators-and-health-map | ||
| 21 | https://opendata.dc.gov/apps/DCGIS::data-hacktoberfest-vulnerability-hotspot-map | ||
| 3 | https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/ce560db830634fff90933dc5664d4ebf/ | ||
| 3 | https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/ce560db830634fff90933dc5664d4ebf |
Tags
- environment
- tree-canopy
- sidewalk
- dc
- district-of-columbia
- schools
- transportation
- octo
- police
- roads
- education
- safety
- employment
- street
- washington-dc
- vision-zero
- vz
- health