Deteriorated Paint Index for Lead Risk Prediction by U.S. County

A predicted risk index for U.S. counties, identifying areas at-risk of containing pre-1980 households with large areas of deteriorated paint, a common predictor of lead dust. The dataset is produced by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and was last updated on March 11, 2026. It is designed to help target limited remediation and abatement funding for residential lead exposure.

Use Cases

• Prioritizing remediation funding based on predicted county-level risk of deteriorated paint.
• Identifying high-risk neighborhoods for lead exposure intervention efforts.
• Analyzing the spatial distribution of housing-related lead risk factors across counties.
• Supporting policy and resource allocation decisions for healthy homes programs.

Strengths

• Data is produced by the authoritative Department of Housing and Urban Development.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded: 2026-03-11 12:56:29.620128.
• Focuses on a specific, actionable public health risk indicator for targeting resources.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic or source bias inherent to the underlying household-level data.

Provenance

Source

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Collection Method

Uses household-level data to predict a household's risk of deteriorated paint, aggregated to the county level.

Time Range

Focuses on pre-1980 housing, but specific temporal coverage of the underlying data is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-11 12:56:29.620128; freshness should be verified.

Geography

County-level coverage for the United States.