2013 Neighborhood Vulnerability Index
For comparison purposes, we developed a vulnerability index using the exact same variables to show where our neighborhoods were five years ago, using data from the 2013 5-year American Community Survey. The 2013 ACS covers the period 2009-2013 and is the most directly comparable ACS survey to the 2018 data (ACS five-year estimates are produced over a five year time period and can only be compared to non-overlapping five-year estimates).
During this time period, the Tucson metro region was deep in the Great Recession. Our housing market hit a low point in January 2012 and overall employment declined from 2009 through 2013.
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2013 Neighborhood Vulnerability Index Summary
Of the 241 total census tracts in Pima County, evaluation of the 2013 ACS data found 100 vulnerable census tracts in Pima County, or 41.5%. Of the total vulnerable tracts, 86 were within the City of Tucson - this means that 54.7% of census tracts in Tucson were found to be vulnerable in some way in 2013.
