America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers

How Resilient Are Communities to Disasters?

For the first time, using newly developed experimental estimates, the U.S. Census Bureau has created a tool to help measure the degree of a community’s resilience in the face of disasters and other emergencies.

The Community Resilience Estimates (CRE) is a resilience measure that identifies a community’s ability to endure, respond and recover from the impact of disasters.

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The Community Resilience Estimates can be used for any purpose where specific risk factors are useful at low levels of geography.

Individuals with three or more risk factors – from health and income to age and living conditions – are considered high risk. Likewise, communities are high risk if at least 30% of their population has three or more risk factors.

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