This feature class contains race, ethnicity, household income, and number of households with anyone under 18 information for Jefferson County by census tract.  It was joined to the Jefferson County 2010 Census Tract feature class on the Jefferson County internal geodatabase using GEOID numbers as the common field. 

All data was downloaded from US Census website: https://data.census.gov and tables joined to one another after being joined to census tract feature classes of the identical year time frame. It comes from the 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year Estimate. Race, Ethnicity, Household Income, and Ages in Household data can be found as tables B02001, B03002, B19001, and S1101 respectively after filtering for Jefferson County, Colorado and All Census Tracts within Jefferson County, Colorado. 

Only four fields from the Ages in Household table was included in this dataset: average household size, households, average family size, number of household with persons under 18 living there. 

Several Additional fields were created including Nonwhite (total pop - white alone), Nonwhite or H (Nonwwhite or Hispanic = total pop - Not Hispanic or Latino: White Alone. This is estimate all those persons that are nonwhite OR Hispanic, regardless of origin), and several percentage fields of these new, or existing fields. Percentage fields all end in "_p". 

A final field, "Low Income HH" was created using CO HB21-1266 definition of low income household: "Low income" means the median household income is less than or equal to two hundred percent of the federal poverty guideline. 

It was decided to use the weighted average of 1 and 2 person household incomes in Jefferson County and compare it to the 2021 Federal Poverty guidelines as the "low Income" household cutoff. This is because 1 and 2 person households make up 27.2% and 37.9% of all households in Jefferson County in 2021 respectively. After calculating the weighted average using the federal poverty guidelines for 1 and 2 person households, it was determined a...
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