FEBRUARY 20, 2024 — The U.S. Census Bureau today released the 2022 Community Resilience Estimates Equity Supplement (CRE) and an update to the CRE for Equity interactive tool for U.S. areas most socially vulnerable to disasters and other stressors.

The new supplement shows a connection between income inequality and higher social vulnerability to the impact of disasters. It includes new 2022 equity estimates with race-iterated variables that allow users to examine select topics related to social vulnerability by specific race and Hispanic origin groups.

Community resilience is the capacity of individuals and households within a community to absorb the external stresses of a disaster. Using 2022 American Community Survey (ACS), 1-year microdata modeled with Population Estimates Program data, the CRE measures the social vulnerability of a community that inhibits community resilience. These estimates are based on 10 topics from the ACS that are components of social vulnerability. These topics include poverty status, disability status, age, broadband internet access, health insurance coverage, and more.

The 2022 CRE for Equity Supplement combines the 2022 CRE with demographic and socioeconomic data (e.g., race, ethnicity, income inequality) from the 2018-2022 ACS, 5-year estimates; the 2020 Census; and the 2022 Planning Database in one place to highlight social context and further discussions of equity. 

New race-iterated variables in this release include:

• Population counts.
• Educational attainment.
• Poverty.
• Household income.
• Age.
• Disability.
• Unemployment.

New race and Hispanic origin breakdowns include:

• White alone.
• Black or African American alone.
• American Indian or Alaska Native alone.
• Asian alone.
• Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone.
• Some Other Race alone.
• Two or More Races alone.
• Hispanic or Latino.
• White alone, not Hispanic or Latino.

The CRE Program plans to release additional data products this year including updates to the CRE estimates for Puerto Rico, new ranking tables, and new experimental estimates.

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