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How transportation planners can use My Community Explorer: Los Angeles example
Summary
Census staff demonstrated a transportation planning scenario in MCE, producing county-level figures for Los Angeles (464,528 households below poverty — 13.8%; ~291,000 households without a vehicle — 8.7%; 301,059 households 65+ living alone — 9%).
In a practical scenario, Meredith Maxwell used My Community Explorer to build a profile for Los Angeles County to support transportation planning. She demonstrated how planners can filter for households below poverty, residents aged 65+ living alone, and households without a vehicle, and then export county-level figures to inform service planning.
Maxwell reported that in the Los Angeles County profile the county had "464,528 households or 13.8% of households" below poverty, households without a vehicle were "just over 291,000 or 8.7% of households," and households with someone 65-plus living alone were "301,059 or 9% of households." She said these outputs come from ACS 2018–2022 five-year estimates and showed how the interactive table and map can be used to highlight tracts with higher needs.
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