Environmental justice burden
Where do environmental burdens and vulnerability stack up? This map shows EPA EJScreen indicators for each Columbus neighborhood — the EJ demographic index plus air quality, traffic, lead, and proximity to hazardous sites. Search your address or click any neighborhood, and switch indicators with the tabs.
How to read this map
EPA EJScreen scores every census block group on environmental and demographic indicators. Each value here is a national percentile (0–100): a score of 90 means the area faces a heavier burden than 90% of the country. We show each neighborhood as the area-weighted average of the block groups it covers, so a warmer color means a higher burden. The drawer reports how many block groups were averaged.
The EJ demographic index combines low-income and people-of-color shares — EPA’s measure of who is most affected. The environmental tabs (PM2.5, ozone, diesel, lead, traffic, and proximity to Superfund, chemical-accident, hazardous-waste, wastewater, and underground-storage sites) are the burdens themselves.
Source: EPA EJScreen block-group indicators, intersected with Census TIGER/Line block-group boundaries. Air-toxics cancer and respiratory indices are omitted where EPA suppresses their national percentile. See methodology for details.