America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers

Almost 1 in 4 people in the United States are socially vulnerable and have low resilience to extreme heat exposure, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data.

The Community Resilience Estimates (CRE) for Heat, an experimental data product released in April, measures the capacity of individuals and households in a community to withstand the stress of exposure to extreme heat based on their social characteristics.

The standard CRE measures social vulnerability that inhibits community resilience while the CRE for Heat adjusts certain risk factors like quality of housing, transportation modes and financial hardship to gauge social vulnerability specifically to extreme heat exposure.

The tool produces national, state, county and census tract (neighborhood equivalent) estimates using individual and household data from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) restricted microdata and the Census Bureau?s Population Estimates Program (PEP).

Continue reading?to learn more about:

• CRE for Heat findings
• How CRE for Heat came about

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In September 2021, the Census Bureau?s Community Resilience Estimates program released a dataset and tool that help decision makers understand their communities? vulnerabilities.

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