Where are Low-income Households At Risk From Sea Level Rise?

Sea level rise is an ever-looming climate hazard facing the coastal communities of the United States. Communities big and small need easy-to-use tools for climate resilience planning and mitigation strategies. This layer shows coastal census tracts that are at risk from sea level rise and also the percentage of the census tract that lives below the poverty level. This layer should be used to identify and prioritize where to implement sea level rise interventions. This layer uses bivariate symbology with the following attributes: Percent of the Tract Area Predicted to be Below Sea Level by 2050 (%) Percent of Population whose income in the past 12 months is below poverty level (%) These attribute links take you to the original data sources. Preprocessing was needed to prepare many of these inputs for inclusion in our index. The links are provided for reference only. This layer is one of six in a series developed to support local climate resilience planning. Intended as planning tools for policy makers, climate resilience planners, and community members, these layers highlight areas of the community that are most likely to benefit from the resilience intervention it supports. Each map focuses on one specific sea level rise intervention that is intended to help mitigate against the climate hazard. Each intervention index will help with planning and prioritizing mitigations against a suite of climate change hazards. A climate resilience intervention index can be used to rank census tracts in a particular area as benefitting more or less from that particular intervention. Each intervention index in this set is envisioned to help with planning and prioritizing mitigations against sea level rise. Layers in the sea level rise hazard series include, Where Would Planting Mangrove Trees Mitigate Coastal Flooding? Where Would Planting Marsh Grass Mitigate Coastal Flooding? Where Would a Buddy Program Improve Coastal Flooding Preparedness? Where Would Coastal Flooding Awareness Increase Resilience? Low-income Households At Risk From Sea Level Rise Disadvantaged Communities At Risk From Sea Level Rise Did you know you can build your own climate resilience index or use ours and customize it? The Customize a climate resilience index Tutorial provides more information on the index and also walks you through steps for taking our index and customizing it to your needs so you can create intervention maps better suited to your location and sourced from your own higher resolution data. For more information about how Esri enriched the census tracts with exposure, demographic, and environmental data to create composite indices called intervention indices, please read this technical reference. Read these blogs for more information and workflows: Tools for Building Community Climate Resilience Build a Heat Risk Index for Local Climate Planning: Part 1 of 3 Build a Heat Risk Index for Local Climate Planning: Part 2 of 3 Build a Heat Risk Index for Local Climate Planning: Part 3 of 3 This feature layer was created from the Climate Resilience Planning Census Tracts hosted feature layer view and is one of 18 similar intervention layers, all of which can be found in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.