NoVA Playground Access Atlas: Children Aged 0-9 and Distance to the Nearest Playground (Keystone GIS Day 128)

Playgrounds from OpenStreetMap and two county park inventories compared with ACS 2020-24 counts of children aged 0-9 for the 579 tracts of the nine Northern Virginia jurisdictions: distance from each tract's population-weighted centroid to the nearest playground, counts within 0.5 and 1 mile, and gap flags. 89.8% of children live within half a mile of a playground; 55 tracts holding 32,805 children do not.Produced by the Keystone GIS Northern Virginia Autonomous GIS Research Program. Full methodology, interactive map, and FGDC metadata: https://keystonegis.com/datasets/nova-playground-access-day128.html