Chattanooga Census Tracts classified as SN_C (Identified as disadvantaged) by Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. These tracts serve as the working boundary for Take Root, an Urban Community Forestry project funded by the US Forest Service for the City of Chattanooga, Green|Spaces, Southeastern Conservation Corps, and the Univeristy of Tennessee at Chattanooga. From CEJST: The tool uses datasets as indicators of burdens. The burdens are organized into categories. A community is highlighted as disadvantaged on the CEJST map if it is in a census tract that is (1) at or above the threshold for one or more environmental, climate, or other burdens, and (2) at or above the threshold for an associated socioeconomic burden.In addition, a census tract that is completely surrounded by disadvantaged communities and is at or above the 50% percentile for low income is also considered disadvantaged.Census tracts are small units of geography. Census tract boundaries for statistical areas are determined by the U.S. Census Bureau once every ten years. The tool utilizes the census tract boundaries from 2010. This was chosen because many of the data sources in the tool currently use the 2010 census boundaries.For more info visit: https://screeningtool.geoplatform.gov/en/methodology#11.22/35.0469/-85.2677
The Federal government's Home Owners' Loan Corporation between 1935 and 1940, used data and evaluations organized by local real estate professionals--lenders, developers, and real estate appraisers--in each city, assigned grades to residential neighborhoods that reflected their "mortgage security" that would then be visualized on color-coded maps. Neighborhoods receiving the highest grade of "A"--colored green on the maps--were deemed minimal risks for banks and other mortgage lenders when they were determining who should received loans and which areas in the city were safe investments. Those receiving the lowest grade of "D," colored red, were considered "hazardous."
Conservative, responsible lenders, in HOLC judgment, would "refuse to make loans in these areas [or] only on a conservative basis." HOLC created area descriptions to help to organize the data they used to assign the grades. Among that information was the neighborhood's quality of housing, the recent history of sale and rent values, and, crucially, the racial and ethnic identity and class of residents that served as the basis of the neighborhood's grade. These maps and their accompanying documentation helped set the rules for nearly a century of real estate practice that has systematically disenfranchised communities of color.
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Resident Population in Chattanooga, TN-GA (MSA) was 588.05000 Thous. of Persons in January of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Resident Population in Chattanooga, TN-GA (MSA) reached a record high of 588.05000 in January of 2024 and a record low of 477.21300 in January of 2000. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Resident Population in Chattanooga, TN-GA (MSA) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on May of 2025.
Approximate neighborhood boundaries for Hamilton County, Tennessee. This layer was created by the United Way of Chattanooga.
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Chattanooga Census Tracts classified as SN_C (Identified as disadvantaged) by Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. These tracts serve as the working boundary for Take Root, an Urban Community Forestry project funded by the US Forest Service for the City of Chattanooga, Green|Spaces, Southeastern Conservation Corps, and the Univeristy of Tennessee at Chattanooga. From CEJST: The tool uses datasets as indicators of burdens. The burdens are organized into categories. A community is highlighted as disadvantaged on the CEJST map if it is in a census tract that is (1) at or above the threshold for one or more environmental, climate, or other burdens, and (2) at or above the threshold for an associated socioeconomic burden.In addition, a census tract that is completely surrounded by disadvantaged communities and is at or above the 50% percentile for low income is also considered disadvantaged.Census tracts are small units of geography. Census tract boundaries for statistical areas are determined by the U.S. Census Bureau once every ten years. The tool utilizes the census tract boundaries from 2010. This was chosen because many of the data sources in the tool currently use the 2010 census boundaries.For more info visit: https://screeningtool.geoplatform.gov/en/methodology#11.22/35.0469/-85.2677