Metadata Information

Overview

Originator:
Centers for Disease Control - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Title:
Housing Type/Transportation Theme - Social Vulnerability Index, tract. 2016-2020 5-year ACS
Abstract:
The Housing Type/Transportation Theme is one of four that composes the CDC/ATSDR Social Vulneratiblity Index. Five different variables derived from the United States Census Bureau's 5-year American Community Survey belong to this theme, including housing structures with 10 or more units (multi-unit), housing units that are mobile homes, housing units with more peple than rooms (overcrowing), households without access to a vehicle, and population residing in group quarters.
Time Period of Content Date:
2016-2020 5-year ACS
Theme Keywords:
Data is available for virtually all U.S. tract.
Contact Person Information:
TBD

Data Quality

Completeness:
Data are available for the United States. Data are not provided for Puerto Rico or the US territories.
Missing Data:
TBD
Lineage:
The findSVI R package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/findSVI/index.html) was used the compute the variables for this theme. This R package depends on the tidyCensus R package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/findSVI/index.html) to access American Community Survey data from the Census Bureau's API.

Distribution

Publisher:
Healthy Communities Data Portal
Publication Date:
2025

Attributes

Column Type Label Description
E_MUNIT numeric Housing in structures with 10 or more units estimate NA
E_MOBILE numeric Mobile homes estimate NA
E_CROWD numeric More people than rooms estimate NA
E_NOVEH numeric Households with no vehicle available estimate NA
E_GROUPQ numeric Persons in group quarters estimate NA
EP_MUNIT numeric Percentage of housing in structures with 10 or more units estimate NA
EP_MOBILE numeric Percentage of mobile homes estimate NA
EP_CROWD numeric Percentage of occupied housing units with more people than rooms estimate NA
EP_NOVEH numeric Percentage of households with no vehicle available estimate NA
EP_GROUPQ numeric Percentage of persons in group quarters estimate NA
EPL_MUNIT numeric Percentile percentage housing in structures with 10 or more units estimate NA
EPL_MOBILE numeric Percentile percentage mobile homes estimate NA
EPL_CROWD numeric Percentile percentage households with more people than rooms estimate NA
EPL_NOVEH numeric Percentile percentage households with no vehicle available estimate NA
EPL_GROUPQ numeric Percentile percentage of persons in group quarters estimate NA
SPL_theme4 numeric Sum of series (percentiles) for Housing Type/Transportation theme NA
RPL_theme4 numeric Percentile ranking for Housing Type/Transportation theme NA
GEOID character FIPS code NA
NAME character Geographic unit name NA
STATE character State abbreviation NA
YEAR numeric 5-year ACS dataset on which measures are based NA