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social-vulnerability-index-household·dataset

Social Vulnerability: Household and Disability

Social Vulnerability Index (Household)
land NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Ranks neighborhoods by how vulnerable their households are, based on factors like older adults, young children, people with disabilities, and single-parent homes. Areas are scored as a percentile from least to most vulnerable.

How it's made. Built from U.S. census and demographic data combined into a percentile ranking.

How & where you'd use it. Helps emergency planners target aid to communities most at risk during disasters.

What's measured

socialvulnerabilityindexhousehold

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2000-01-01 → 2018-12-31
  • Spatial extent-178.233, 18.908, -66.958, 71.383
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Track deforestation, fire scars and land-cover change
  • Monitor crop and vegetation health (NDVI/EVI)
  • Map how built-up vs. green an area is over time
Official description

Household Composition & Disability (Aged 65 or Older, Aged 17 or Younger, Civilian with a Disability, Single-Parent Households) - Percentile ranking

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("social-vulnerability-index-household")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).