Description: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH HAZARD INDEXSummary
The environmental health hazard exposure index
summarizes potential exposure to harmful toxins at a neighborhood level.
Potential health hazards exposure is a linear combination of standardized EPA
estimates of air quality carcinogenic (c), respiratory (r) and
neurological (n) hazards with i indexing census tracts.
Where means and standard
errors are estimated over
the national distribution.
Interpretation
Values are inverted and then percentile ranked
nationally. Values range from 0 to 100. The higher the index value, the less
exposure to toxins harmful to human health. Therefore, the higher the value,
the better the environmental quality of a neighborhood, where a neighborhood is
a census block-group.
Data Source: National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) data, 2011.
Related AFFH-T Local Government, PHA and State Tables/Maps: Table 12; Map 13.
References: https://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/natamain/
To learn more about the Environmental Health Hazard Index visit: https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/4868/affh-raw-data/Date of Coverage: 02/2018
Copyright Text: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development