A national geospatial dataset and mapping tool developed by the University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Medicine and Public Health to measure socioeconomic disadvantage at the neighborhood level across the U.S. It provides the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), a composite measure combining 17 indicators across income, education, employment, and housing quality domains. The dataset offers ranked scores, including national percentiles and state deciles, for neighborhood comparison.
Use Cases
- Modeling health disparities based on composite neighborhood disadvantage scores.
- Visualizing socioeconomic inequality patterns across U.S. neighborhoods using geospatial mapping.
- Correlating public health outcomes with the 17-indicator Area Deprivation Index (ADI).
- Comparing neighborhood disadvantage rankings using national percentiles and state deciles.
Strengths
- Composite index integrates 17 distinct socioeconomic indicators across multiple domains.
- Provides ranked scores at two geographic scales: national percentiles and state deciles.
- Developed by an academic institution, the University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
Provenance
- Source
- University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, with author listed as the National Institute of Health (NIH).
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from U.S. Census and other public data sources to calculate the composite index.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-04 15:37:14; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- National coverage across the United States at the neighborhood level.