How transportation planners can use My Community Explorer: Los Angeles example

Jul 30, 2026

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%).

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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.

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