Census Tract-Level Neighborhood Indices

About

This R code generates the Census Tract-Level Neighborhood Indices (tract_indices) data resource. This dataset is a compilation of several open data products at the census tract-level, including

• Socioeconomic Indices

  • 2022 Neighborhood Atlas Area Deprivation Index aggregated to 2020 census tract geographic boundaries
  • 2021 Childhood Opportunity Index 3.0 overall index and three domains interpolated from 2010 to 2020 census tract boundaries
  • 2023 Community Material Deprivation Index
  • Kreiger Racial and Socioeconomic Index of Concentration at the Extremes calculated using 2023 ACS data

• Environmental Indices

  • 2024 EJI

See metadata.md for detailed metadata and schema information.

Accessing Data

Read the {dpkg} directly into R with:

dpkg::stow("https://github.com/geomarker-io/tract_indices/releases/download/2025/tract_indices.parquet") |>
	dpkg::read_dpkg()

Read this CSV file into R directly from the release with:

readr::read_csv("https://github.com/geomarker-io/tract_indices/releases/download/2025/tract_indices.csv")

Data Details

• Rounding: All numeric variables are expressed using 3 significant digits.
• Temporality: All census_tract_ids correspond to the 2020 census tract vintage.