Fig. 8: Comparison between all census tracts and the impacted census tracts due to pipe bursts in Harris County from the aspects of income, race, and ethnicity. | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Fig. 8: Comparison between all census tracts and the impacted census tracts due to pipe bursts in Harris County from the aspects of income, race, and ethnicity.

From: Community-scale big data reveals disparate impacts of the Texas winter storm of 2021 and its managed power outage

Fig. 8

The aspects of income, race, and ethnicity are represented by a median household income, b Black and Hispanic population ratio. The impacted census tracts have a lower median income and higher median ratios of Black and Hispanic populations, indicating that the low income and high ratio of Black populations census tracts experienced greater impacts of pipe bursts during the winter storm.

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