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Location Affordability Index - All Census Places

Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

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 December 7, 2023
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 December 7, 2023
Publisher Office of the Secretary of Transportation
Maintainer
Identifier 337.1
Data First Published 2013-11-19
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2018-12-19
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 42e10937-5f16-408e-b4ae-18bc6f63f6d8
Harvest Source Id a776e4b7-8221-443c-85ed-c5ee5db0c360
Harvest Source Title DOT Socrata Data.json
Homepage URL https://data.transportation.gov/d/ufww-akxc
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 8894f6e6a4e6dedd0fbc550a627715c8f89772a71fce48177875b9cc1f2b6c11
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 2006-01-01/2010-12-31

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