Brokamp et al. (2019) Community Deprivation Index

The Community Deprivation Index (CDI) dataset contains a deprivation index for each census tract in the United States based on a principal components analysis of six different 2015 American Community Survey measures: population below poverty level, median income, high school education, health insurance status, assistance income, and vacant housing. The first component, poverty level, explains over 60% of the total variance compared to the other five measures. It is referred to as the “Deprivation Index”. Rescaling and normalization were used to scale the index to a range from 0 to 1, with 1 representing the most deprivation.