embedded covid neighborhood tool

Emergency Rental Assistance Priority Index percentile

Hover over a census tract to see how its rental assistance need compares with all other tracts in the state, according to the Emergency Rental Assistance Priority Index.

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ELI renters

Data are not displayed for census tracts that have no extremely low–income renters.

Emergency Rental Assistance Priority Index: percentile (among tracts)

Housing Instability Risk Subindex: percentile

Shares of: people living in poverty, renter-occupied housing units, severely cost-burdened low-income renters, severely overcrowded households, and unemployed people

COVID-19 Impact Subindex: percentile

Shares of: adults without health insurance and low-income jobs lost to COVID-19

Equity Subindex: percentile

Shares of: people of color, extremely low–income renter households, households receiving public assistance, and people born outside the US

ELI renters = extremely low–income renters, or renters with incomes at or below 30 percent of the area median income

To allow local decisionmakers to compare the needs of neighborhoods in their area, our map displays each census tract based on the percentile that its index value falls into compared with all other tracts in the state. For this reason, the Emergency Rental Assistance Priority Index percentiles in this tool and the values in the data download should not be used to compare housing instability risk in census tracts in different states.

These subindexes and their underlying indicators have been weighted differently based on evidence that certain factors disproportionately contribute to homelessness and health risks. To see the indicator values that make up each census tract’s subindexes and for more information about how we calculated the Emergency Rental Assistance Priority Index, download the data and the technical appendix.