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My Community Explorer adds Community Resilience Estimates to ACS maps
Summary
My Community Explorer (MCE) combines ACS 5‑year estimates, business data and real‑time incident layers and includes Community Resilience Estimates (CRE) to highlight neighborhoods with higher vulnerability; presenters demonstrated the tool on Los Angeles County, showing a Pomona census tract (4094090) with CRE indicators.
Mac Treece showcased My Community Explorer as an interactive, layered mapping tool that incorporates ACS 5‑year estimates and Community Resilience Estimates (CRE) to help identify populations that may face more challenges during disasters. He described CRE as a way to "show which areas or groups of people may have more challenges during disaster or disasters," and demonstrated zoom and layer functions while exploring recent incidents in Los Angeles County.
The demo included a Pomona example and referenced census tract 4094090 to illustrate how the tool surfaces CRE components such as income below 125% of poverty, household crowding and limited English proficiency. Treece emphasized the importance of using the legend and layers to avoid misinterpreting map colors and noted that MCE had been updated with 2024 ACS 5‑year estimates.
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