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blockgroupstats (DATA) residential population and environmental indicators for Census block groups

Source: R/data_blockgroupstats.R
blockgroupstats.Rd

The dataset of residential population data and environmental indicators originally from EJScreen.

For Summary Indexes, see bgej

Details

  • Version 2.32.5 of EJAM uses EPA environmental indicators and population indicators derived from ACS data from r a2018-2022 Each year this should be re-created as for the latest version. See attributes(blockgroupstats)`

It is a data.table of US Census blockgroups (not blocks). With PR, and Island Areas

Column names include bgfips, bgid (for join to blockwt by/on bgid), pop, pctlowinc, etc.

To see definitions of the columns (indicators) and some basic info on each:

x = data.frame(
 colname = names(blockgroupstats),
 definition = fixcolnames(names(blockgroupstats), 'r', 'long'),
 varinfo(names(blockgroupstats), info = c("varlist", "varcategory",
 "vartype", "calculation_type", "denominator", "sigfigs", "decimals")))

The columns called arealand and areawater are in square meters, not square miles - to convert units: convert_units(sum( blockgroupstats$arealand) , "sqm", "sqmi") The column called "area" is not used and not documented.