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Social Vulnerability: Socioeconomic Status

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

What it measures. Ranks neighborhoods by economic vulnerability, reflecting poverty, unemployment, low income, and lack of a high school diploma. 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 planners direct recovery resources to economically disadvantaged communities after disasters.

What's measured

socialvulnerabilityindexsocioeconomic

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

Socioeconomic Status (Below Poverty, Unemployed, Income, No High School Diploma) - 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-socioeconomic")
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).