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    • Location Affordability Index - All Census Counties

    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

    This dataset is part of the following collection:

    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

    Other Data Resources

    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 337.2
    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 Package Id b25b17cd-aea9-4a0e-90c2-7a83e0c561aa
    Data Quality True
    Data Dictionary http://lai.locationaffordability.info/lai_data_dictionary.pdf
    Data Dictionary Type application/pdf
    Harvest Object Id 58d4d228-8855-42e3-b441-9bde1afbdb19
    Harvest Source Id a776e4b7-8221-443c-85ed-c5ee5db0c360
    Harvest Source Title DOT Socrata Data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.transportation.gov/d/kyux-4ae5
    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 b7618b9d0fd049923bf32b06d394283824d6f89c7aef8d1160dfaaad20a2d3d5
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2006-01-01/2010-12-31

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