{"id":884,"date":"2013-10-29T20:14:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T00:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/?p=884"},"modified":"2013-11-17T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T17:02:00","slug":"distressed-kentucky-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/2013\/10\/29\/distressed-kentucky-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Distressed Kentucky Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ky<\/a>

A GIS analysis<\/p><\/div>\n

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Socioeconomic and Environmental Distress by Block Group in Kentucky<\/h4>\n

A preliminary fact: Landsat Annual Timelapse 1984-2012<\/a> (from Google’s Earth Engine project) shows a glimpse of the vast impact of surface mining in the eastern Kentucky coal fields.<\/p>\n

Kentucky’s population is nearly balanced between urban and rural. 52% of Kentucky’s population lives in rural census block groups\u00c2\u00b9. Economic and social distress\u00c2\u00b2 is more likely to occur in rural areas. 61% of Kentucky’s distressed population lives in rural areas.<\/p>\n

Surface coal mining\u00c2\u00b3 mostly occurs in rural areas and the highest rate of mine permits to population occurs in distressed rural areas. 99.3% of mine permits exist in rural areas.<\/p>\n

The rate of mine permits to persons is 12.8 permits per thousand residents in all distressed areas, 4.24 permits per thousand residents in transitional areas, and .221 permits per thousand residents in non-distressed areas. In the most severely distressed rural areas, the rate is the highest at 32.0 permits per thousand residents.<\/p>\n

61.2% of all distressed rural areas have mine permits.<\/p>\n

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Notes<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00b9 Rural and urban census lock groups\u00c2\u00a0are defined based on population density and proximity to other high density block groups. A block group is considered urban if its population density is greater than or equal to 1,000 persons per square mile. If an adjacent block group has a population density of 500 people per square mile, then it is considered urban. All other block groups are rural. Block groups are also referred to here as “areas.”<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00b2 Distressed is defined by census block group using the\u00c2\u00a02007-2011 American Community Survey 5-year estimates and comparing local rates to national rates in the following indicators (with U.S. averages): Poverty Rate (14.3%), Per Capita Income ($27,915), Unemployment Rate (8.7%), and No High School Educational Attainment Rate, for populations 25+ (6.1%).<\/p>\n

A block group is defined distressed<\/em> if it meets the following criteria: greater than 1.5*Poverty Rate, 1.5*Unemployment Rate, 1* No High School Educational Attainment Rate, and less than 0.66*PCI. It is also defined distressed<\/em> if it has greater than 2*Poverty Rate, 1*No High School Educational Attainment Rate, and is greater than 1.5*Unemployment Rate or\u00c2\u00a0less than 0.66*PCI.<\/p>\n

A block group is severely\u00c2\u00a0distressed<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0if it meets the following criteria: greater than 2*Poverty Rate, 2*Unemployment Rate, 2*No High School Educational Attainment Rate, and less than 0.5*PCI.\u00c2\u00a0It is also defined distressed if it has greater than 2.5*Poverty Rate, 2*No High School Educational Attainment Rate, and\u00c2\u00a0is greater than\u00c2\u00a02*Unemployment Rate or\u00c2\u00a0less than 0.5*PCI<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00b3\u00c2\u00a0Division of Mine Permits, Kentucky Department for Natural Resources. Locations of surface mining permits (easternmost intersection of the access road with a public road) includes all permits from the DNR database accessed on October 15, 2013. The majority of permits are for mines no longer operational.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Socioeconomic and Environmental Distress by Block Group in Kentucky A preliminary fact: Landsat Annual Timelapse 1984-2012 (from Google’s Earth Engine project) shows a glimpse of the vast impact of surface mining in the eastern Kentucky coal fields. Kentucky’s population is nearly balanced between urban and rural. 52% of Kentucky’s population lives in rural census block […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maps","tag-free-maps","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}