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Cejst

CEJST v2.0 disadvantaged community classification for US census tracts, with burden-category flags and supporting burden metrics for mapping environmental justice status.

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Cejst

CEJST v2.0 disadvantaged community classification for US census tracts, with burden-category flags and supporting burden metrics for mapping environmental justice status.

Maintainer
DaedalMap
Status
Downloadable
Access
Map runtime
Date range
2024
Coverage
Single country
Geographic levels
3
Geographic scope
usa
Category
environment
Data type
metrics
Data sets
2

Source agencies

Data sets

Data setSourceLicenseTimeLevels
CEJST Burden Metrics
cejst_burdens
Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)U.S. Federal Government public domain (CEQ); preserved by PEDP mirror20243
Raw burden metric values and percentile ranks for CEJST v2.0, normalized to current tract geography. Covers 8 burden categories used in the disadvantaged community classification and preserves 2010 crosswalk provenance for remapped tracts. Use to answer why a tract is or is not disadvantaged. Joins to cejst_classification on loc_id.
CEJST Disadvantaged Community Classification
cejst_classification
Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)U.S. Federal Government public domain (CEQ); preserved by PEDP mirror20243
CEJST v2.0 tract-level classification normalized to current tract geography. Identifies which US census tracts are disadvantaged communities under the Justice40 initiative. Contains the binary classification result, all 32 per-category threshold flags, demographics, tract context, and preserved 2010 crosswalk provenance. Pairs with cejst_burdens for raw metric values.

Example questions

  • Which census tracts in Los Angeles County are classified as disadvantaged?
  • Which census tracts in Mississippi have the highest energy burden?