EEA Environment & Energy Office

"Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs' (EEA) Environmental Justice (EJ) Policy, which establishes EJ as an integral consideration in all EEA programs, to the extent applicable and allowable by law. For more information please visit EEA's Environmental Justice Web page, which includes a detailed fact sheet as well as text of the full policy....represent areas across the state with high minority, non-English speaking, and/or low-income populations. Data ... compiled for Census 2010 block groups from the 2010 census redistricting tables and from the American Community Survey (ACS) 2006-2010 5 year estimates tables.

The 2010 EJ dataset should be used at the block group (BG) level to ensure that environmental planning and decision-making is done at the appropriate geographic scale. A fact sheet ...lists municipalities ... statistics for each of these communities:"
- e - number of EJ BGs, 
- e - EJ criteria, 
- e - percentages of the BGs classified as EJ 
- e - population living in these EJ BGs, 
- e - mean count +/- the population diversity and the criteria intensity of EJ found in the community.

+http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/it-serv-and-support/application-serv/office-of-geographic-information-massgis/datalayers/cen2010ej.html
mass.gov/anf/research...

MAP

Community Statistics

+ http://www.mass.gov/anf/docs/itd/services/massgis/ej-2010-communitystatistics.pdf
+ http://www.mass.gov/anf/docs/itd/services/massgis/northeast-ej-2010-map.pdf


"The American Community Survey helps local officials, community leaders and businesses understand the changes taking place in their communities.  It is the premier source for detailed information about the American people and workforce"
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/

American Community Survey

Census .Gov...Data

https://www.census.gov/acs/www/data/data-tables-and-tools/index.php