Census Bureau training specialist demonstrates My Community Explorer disaster-mapping tool
May 18, 2026
Krystal Jimerson of the U.S. Census Bureau demonstrates the My Community Explorer tool, showing how zooming to census tracts — such as Census Tract 521.01 in Wake County, N.C. — reveals concentrations of social vulnerability and a poverty rate of 20.8% that exceed the national average.
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Krystal Jimerson, a training specialist at the U.S. Census Bureau, demonstrated the agency’s My Community Explorer disaster-mapping tool in a short Data Gem video, showing how users can zoom from county outlines to census tracts to identify pockets of social vulnerability.
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