More Than a Quarter of People Who Live in Counties Along the Border Are Considered High-Risk. Learn more in this America Counts story.





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How Resilient Are Communities Along the U.S.-Mexico Border?

A significantly lower percentage of people living along the U.S.-Mexico border are living with zero risk factors than those in the nation as a whole, according to the U.S. Census Bureau?s*?*Community Resilience Estimates (CRE).

The CRE looks at various risk factors, from income to age and health insurance coverage, to measure how resilient and how at-risk communities are to the impacts of disasters.

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In this story, we use the Department of Health and Human Services??U.S. Mexico Border Health Commission?(USMBHC)?s?definition of border.

Established by a binational executive agreement in 2000, the USMBHC was?created??to identify and evaluate current and future health problems affecting the population in the United States-Mexico Border Area, and to encourage and facilitate actions to address those problems.? (Examples of this work can be found in the?2020?Healthy Border report.)

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CRE border counties


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