Overall Air Toxics Risk and Diesel Risk as determined by SCAQMD MATES Studies (with additional equity evaluation)

Heatmap of cancer risk per 1 million clipped to LA County boundary. Polygons representing areas of uniform risk are colored according to severity of risk. Map includes census tracts in the bottom decile of median household income for LA County.

Data was derived from annual reports of HAP metal emissions from TRI Explorer for LA County. The data includes total mass of point source and fugitive air emissions for each of the pollutants for each year.

Data (as of April 3, 2019) includes recycling market development zone businesses within LA County. The Recycling Market Development Zones (RMDZs) combines recycling with economic development. The program provides loans, technical assistance, and free product marketing to businesses that use materials from the waste stream to manufacture their products and are located in a zone. Data includes approximate location (by zip code) of RMDZ business across LA County

Data includes amount of energy generated at the City level. Sourced from 2017 CEC Annual Generation data and QFER Reporting data.

Heat stress related ER visits between 2005 - 2014
Data includes estimates of population by SPA (requested from LA County Public Health for the purposes of normalizing counts of ED visits) and heat stress ED visits by Special Planning Area (from LACDPH). Data was normalized by raw counts by population.SPA 5 and 6 for all years except 2008 were low.

Waste consolidation facilities within LA County obtained on October 10, 2018. Data includes number of facilities by city, countywide facilities (Clinic, Events for Collection, Hospital, Household Hazardous Waste, Kiosk, Other, Pharmacy, Police Station, Transfer Station), by waste type (Sharps, Pharmaceuticals or both), and the number of facilities by type by city.

Non-spatial illegal dumping data. Data obtained from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works - consists primarily of illegal dumping reports within unincorporated LA County.

Data of annual countywide waste destination is from CalRecycl'e Solid Waste Information System (SWIS) from 2010 to 2017. Data was sourced from SWIS Facility/Site Search database and used to distinguish between in-county and out-of-county disposal destinations. The data includes year, quarter, jurisdiction generating the waste, facility name and county it is located, as well as total disposed, transformed, alternative daily cover and total waste (in tons). Data is summerized by in-county (LA County total), outside county (total), and each county where waste from LA County is disposed (total).

Data includes total waste and per capita waste disposed by city in 2017. Artesia, Beverly Hills, Duarte, Hidden Hills, Los Angeles, Lynwood, Manhattan Beach, Pomona, Rancho Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach, Rosemead, Sierra Madre, South Gate and Torrance were combined and reported as the Los Angeles Integrated Waste Management District.

As determined from www.walkscore.com.
Walk Score is a service that grades the “walkability” of select geographies. Their methodology is proprietary, and historical information is only available with a subscription. Data includes individual Walk Score for each available city and unincorporated community within LA County. Average walk score for each city and neighborhood was created – from most walkable to least (highest score to lowest score). The median Walk Score for all geographies and the the straight average (not weighted) Walk Score is included in the chart.