Deteriorated Paint Index Predicting Lead Risk by U.S. State

The Deteriorated Paint Index (DPI) predicts areas at-risk of containing pre-1980 households with large areas of deteriorated paint, a significant predictor of lead dust. Data is provided at the state level by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and was last updated on March 11, 2026. It uses household-level data to predict a household's risk of deteriorated paint.

Use Cases

• Prioritize funding allocation for lead remediation based on predicted risk of deteriorated paint.
• Identify high-risk neighborhoods for targeted public health interventions based on state-level risk indices.
• Support policy planning for healthy homes programs using predicted risk of lead exposure sources.
• Analyze geographic patterns of lead paint risk factors across U.S. states.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific, significant public health predictor: deteriorated paint in pre-1980 homes.
• Data is produced by the authoritative U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
• Last updated on March 11, 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• 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.

Time Range

Focuses on pre-1980 housing stock.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-11 12:56:30.981563

Geography

State-level data for the United States.