For Academic Research
Research Resources
Validated tract-level resilience scores for 54,000+ census tracts, complete methodology documentation, and programmatic API access.
Dataset Overview
Recent Papers
Immigrant Health Advantage Analysis
Testing whether the "Hispanic Paradox" reflects genuine community resilience or aggregation artifacts. Finds dramatic heterogeneity across origin groups and a 2.6 SD gap within Texas.
Read Paper → NewStructural Correlates of Resilience
Examines the 0.43 SD resilience gap between majority-white and majority-minority communities. State-level variation from +1.87 to -0.89 SD proves structural factors are modifiable.
Read Paper →Structural Determinants Paper
Core methodology paper establishing the resilience framework and analyzing structural predictors across 53,889 census tracts.
Read Paper →View All Research
Browse all published papers, working papers, and research findings from the Community Resilience Mapping Project.
Browse All →Data Access
Full Dataset (CSV)
Download the complete dataset with all variables including resilience scores, health burden, socioeconomic indicators, and geographic identifiers.
Browse & Download →REST API
Programmatic access for applications. Query tracts by FIPS code, geocode addresses, and integrate resilience data into your research workflows.
API Documentation →Interactive Map
Visual exploration of all census tracts. Useful for identifying geographic patterns, outliers, and regions of interest for deeper analysis.
Explore Map →Methodology
Resilience scores are standardized residuals from an OLS regression predicting health burden from socioeconomic and access factors with state fixed effects. A positive score indicates better health outcomes than predicted; negative indicates worse.
Health Burden Index
Composite 0-1 scale from CDC PLACES data: chronic disease prevalence, mental health indicators, preventive care gaps, and behavioral risk factors.
Regression Model
OLS with state fixed effects predicting health burden from poverty rate, education levels, insurance coverage, food access, and housing cost burden.
Resilience Score
Standardized residual (z-score). Score of +2.0 means community is ~2 SD healthier than predicted—roughly top 2% of positive outliers.
Data Sources
- CDC PLACES 2024 — Census tract-level health outcomes (BRFSS 2022)
- USDA Food Access Research Atlas 2019 — Food desert classification
- Census Bureau 2020 — Population and boundary data
- ACS 5-Year Estimates — Socioeconomic indicators
How to Cite
Community Resilience Mapping Project (2026). Census tract-level health resilience scores for the United States. https://odds.healthThis dataset is provided under open access terms for academic research. Please cite when publishing.