Table of the California Healthy Places Index (HPI) from the Public Health Alliance of Southern California in partnership with the Virginia Commonwealth University’s Center on Society and Health, dated April 24, 2019, was downloaded 2/3/2021 from https://healthyplacesindex.org/

According to the Public Health Alliance of Southern California*:

The Healthy Places Index is an important tool to identify places that have the conditions to promote good health. The tool helps us examine how conditions vary by community to help decision-makers target funding, set policy, and pursue other efforts to maximize our wellbeing. The goal is to ensure that all Californians—not just those living in certain communities—have the opportunity to thrive and be healthy.

* Healthy Places Index documentation, July 8, 2018

Potential indicators assigned to eight policy action areas:

1. Economics

2. Education

3. Healthcare access

4. Housing

5. Neighborhood conditions

6. Clean Environment

7. Social environment

8. Transportation

An HPI score, domains, and individual indicator values and their percentile rankings are presented in the table.

For more information, visit the website at https://healthyplacesindex.org/

Process

Downloaded HPI Master File [13MB, ZIP] XLSX (with data dictionary) and CSV versions of the master file packaged with a PDF version of the HPI Technical Report. Revised April 24, 2019. Exported to file geodatabse table. Edited field alias names to make them more readable.

Joined table to CENSUS_TRACTS_2010 from eGIS Data Repository. Exported to new file geodatabase featue class.