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Location Affordability Index

Metadata Updated: May 8, 2024

The Location Affordability Index is an indicator of housing and transportation costs at the neighborhood level. It gives the percentage of a given family's income estimated to be spent on housing and transportation costs in a given location for eight different household profiles. It is calculated using actual and modeled data for Census block groups in all 942 Combined Base Statistical Areas, which cover 94% of the U.S. population.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

Collection

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Downloads & Resources

References

http://www.locationaffordability.info/downloads/ModelingCode.pdf

Dates

Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date May 8, 2024
Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOT Socrata Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date May 8, 2024
Publisher Office of the Secretary of Transportation
Maintainer
Identifier DOT-337
Data First Published 2013-11-19
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2024-05-08
Category Transportation
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
Agencydataseriesurl http://www.locationaffordability.info/lai.aspx%3Furl=download.php
Agencyprogramurl http://www.locationaffordability.info/
Analysisunit Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA)
Bureau Code 021:04
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://data.transportation.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Categorydesignation Research
Collectioninstrument Transportation
Collection Metadata true
Data Quality True
Data Dictionary http://lai.locationaffordability.info/lai_data_dictionary.pdf
Data Dictionary Type application/pdf
Harvest Object Id 930d01e1-b528-4e42-a0cc-901404cc9e47
Harvest Source Id a776e4b7-8221-443c-85ed-c5ee5db0c360
Harvest Source Title DOT Socrata Data.json
Homepage URL https://data.transportation.gov/d/mivp-8kw9
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Old Spatial Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA)
Phone 800-245-2691
Program Code 021:058
Related Documents http://www.locationaffordability.info/downloads/ModelingCode.pdf
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash b1bbf32b7b855bfa150859adc8ef0093a353e1d6ae41e2028c8d9e7da87718d9
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 2006-01-01/2010-12-31

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