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Title: Mapping Poverty Alachua County, Florida


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Mapping Poverty Alachua County, Florida
Map provided By PennyWise Realty
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Purposes of Our Study
  • To explore patterns of poverty within Alachua
    County using specific poverty indicators
  • To Implement ARCGIS and ARCMAP programs to
    present a spatial analysis of this data.
  • To present this data in a spatial format to aid
    in decision making process for striving toward
    reduced poverty in the county

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Alachua County
  • Located in North Central Florida
  • Population of approximately 223, 578
  • 24 of population living below the poverty level
  • Includes the cities of Alachua, Archer,
    Gainesville, Hawthorne, High Springs, La Crosse,
    Micanopy, Newberry, and Waldo.

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Poverty Indicators
  • We looked at three variables we feel are linked
    to poverty.
  • 1. Economic Indicators
  • 2. Sociodemographic Indicators
  • 3. Vulnerability Indicators

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Economic Poverty Indicator
  • We determined an economic indicator of poverty by
    using the established census bureau guidelines
    and then creating 3 levels of High, Medium and
    Low Poverty based on aggregated income levels and
    household income using established census block
    groups.

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Economic Poverty Levels
  • High Poverty Income 10,000 13,999
  • Medium PovertyIncome 14, 000 -16, 999
  • Low Poverty Income 17,000- 20, 000

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Socioeconomic Indicator
  • We explored the relationship between poverty and
    key ethnic groups to look for suggestive trends.

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High poverty rates tend to correspond with high
Hispanic population abundance
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Medium poverty rates tend to correspond with
medium African American population abundance
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Low poverty rates tend to correspond with high
Caucasian population abundance except in SW
Gainesville
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Socioeconomic Indicator
  • We also looked at education levels as they relate
    to poverty.

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Socioeconomic Indicator
  • There are less individuals receiving diplomas in
    rural areas
  • Suggests that social programs should be extended
    to these areas to ensure high school completion

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Vulnerability Indicator
  • We chose to look at two types of vulnerability
    indicators environmental vulnerability and
    availability to services vulnerability.

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Availability to Services Vulnerability
  • Those factors we considered important include
    presence of fire departments, hospitals, schools,
    transit routes and sewer. These factors
    contribute to social poverty by making it
    difficult for individuals in areas where there
    are fewer available services. A reduced access to
    services means reduced opportunities and
    increased safety risks.

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Environmental Vulnerability
  • Environmental vulnerability factors contribute to
    an impoverished circumstance for those
    individuals living in areas because they
    influence the quality of air, water and soil.
    They influence the kind of risks to which people
    in these areas are exposed. By extension, this
    may further depress the economics of areas if
    individuals exposed to contaminants become sick
    and do not have adequate if any insurance to
    cover medical expenses.

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Environmental Vulnerability
  • The factors we considered to be significant
    include location of hazardous waste sites, sewage
    treatment plants and pipe placements, solid waste
    sites and superfund sites.

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In Conclusion
  • Most impoverished areas in Alachua fall within
    the rural areas outside of city boundaries and
    within Gainesville boundaries in the North East
    area of the city.
  • Most services found within urbanized areas and
    less in rural

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In Conclusion
  • Hazardous waste sites predominately in lower
    sociodemographic regions within city boundaries
    while sewage treatment plants are more equally
    distributed throughout Alachua
  • Superfund site located in Gainesville boundaries
    within one of the poorest communities
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