Social Vulnerability Index Recalculation

The Social Vulnerability Index Recalculation is based on the important work of the federal Centers for Disease Control. With the future of that index in doubt, the same federal datasets and methodologies were used to carry the index forward.

The most recent SVI uses the 2022 American Communities Survey as its base. This recalculation matches the 2022 baseline 100 percent. The 2022 methodologies form the basis of the updated calculations for subsequent ACS vintages. This platform will run updates on all new ACS releases.

Should the SVI be updated with changed methodologies, this platform will update to match, while preserving the 2022 methodologies for comparison purposes.

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Jones County — Social Vulnerability Index

Unofficial CDC-method recomputation, 2020–2024 ACS 5-year
Jones County — Social Vulnerability Index by census tract
Shading: Overall SVI Percentile
Lower (9 to 21)Lower-middle (29 to 40)Middle (54 to 59)Upper-middle (68 to 77)Higher (80 to 91)No data
Each unit is shaded by its Overall SVI Percentile value and grouped into equal-count bands (quantiles) against the other units shown — lighter = lower, darker = higher. It ranks position among the units in view; it does not grade places, and the ranges shift with which units are shown.

The map is bounded to this parent geography — it shows the selected unit among its own siblings only, the same depth rule the drill-down uses. Shading ranks position on the measure among the units shown; it does not grade places.
Median tract: 57th percentile (among all U.S. tracts).
These tracts span the 9th percentile to the 91st percentile. The width of that range is the internal disparity.
Tract 9511.02 is marked below — Above the median.
Well above the median4 (21%) · 16,372 people
Above the median4 (21%) · 13,115 people ◀ Tract 9511.02
Near the median5 (26%) · 18,956 people
Below the median5 (26%) · 15,873 people
Well below the median1 (5%) · 2,156 people
Widest spread across these tracts: Housing Type & Transportation — this theme most separates the higher- and lower-ranked tracts here.

The SVI ranks each tract's position relative to a comparison set; it is not averaged into one number for the area, because percentiles do not average meaningfully. The distribution — median, range, and shape below — is the summary.
Tract 9510.00 (pop. 3,890) — 91st percentile — Well above the median CDC-based flag ≥ 90th percentile
Driven by Socioeconomic Status (well above) and Housing Type & Transportation (well above); near the median on Racial & Ethnic Minority Status; below the median on Household Characteristics.
Tract 9507.00 (pop. 4,253) — 84th percentile — Well above the median
Driven by Household Characteristics (well above), Racial & Ethnic Minority Status (above) and Housing Type & Transportation (well above); near the median on Socioeconomic Status.
Tract 9505.00 (pop. 3,690) — 82nd percentile — Well above the median
Driven by Socioeconomic Status (well above), Household Characteristics (well above) and Racial & Ethnic Minority Status (above); below the median on Housing Type & Transportation.
Tract 9506.01 (pop. 4,539) — 80th percentile — Well above the median
Driven by Socioeconomic Status (well above), Racial & Ethnic Minority Status (well above) and Housing Type & Transportation (above); below the median on Household Characteristics.
Tract 9504.01 (pop. 4,446) — 77th percentile — Above the median
Driven by Household Characteristics (well above), Racial & Ethnic Minority Status (above) and Housing Type & Transportation (above); near the median on Socioeconomic Status.
Tract 9506.02 (pop. 2,097) — 76th percentile — Above the median
Driven by Household Characteristics (well above), Racial & Ethnic Minority Status (above) and Housing Type & Transportation (well above); near the median on Socioeconomic Status.
Tract 9511.02 (pop. 4,651) — 70th percentile — Above the median
Driven by Household Characteristics (well above); near the median on Socioeconomic Status, Racial & Ethnic Minority Status and Housing Type & Transportation.
Tract 9501.02 (pop. 1,921) — 68th percentile — Above the median
Driven by Household Characteristics (well above); near the median on Socioeconomic Status and Housing Type & Transportation; below the median on Racial & Ethnic Minority Status.
Tract 9504.02 (pop. 4,195) — 59th percentile — Near the median
Driven by Socioeconomic Status (above) and Racial & Ethnic Minority Status (above); near the median on Housing Type & Transportation; below the median on Household Characteristics.
Tract 9503.01 (pop. 5,361) — 57th percentile — Near the median
Driven by Household Characteristics (well above); near the median on Socioeconomic Status and Racial & Ethnic Minority Status; below the median on Housing Type & Transportation.
Tract 9511.01 (pop. 2,714) — 56th percentile — Near the median
Driven by Household Characteristics (above) and Housing Type & Transportation (above); near the median on Socioeconomic Status and Racial & Ethnic Minority Status.
Tract 9501.01 (pop. 3,967) — 54th percentile — Near the median
Driven by Socioeconomic Status (above); near the median on Household Characteristics and Racial & Ethnic Minority Status; below the median on Housing Type & Transportation.
Tract 9508.01 (pop. 2,719) — 40th percentile — Near the median
Driven by Household Characteristics (above); near the median on Socioeconomic Status and Housing Type & Transportation; below the median on Racial & Ethnic Minority Status.
Tract 9502.02 (pop. 2,178) — 37th percentile — Below the median
Near the median on Socioeconomic Status and Racial & Ethnic Minority Status; below the median on Household Characteristics and Housing Type & Transportation.
Tract 9509.01 (pop. 3,515) — 30th percentile — Below the median
Driven by Household Characteristics (above); below the median on Socioeconomic Status, Racial & Ethnic Minority Status and Housing Type & Transportation.
Tract 9503.02 (pop. 3,246) — 29th percentile — Below the median
Near the median on Socioeconomic Status; below the median on Household Characteristics, Racial & Ethnic Minority Status and Housing Type & Transportation.
Tract 9509.02 (pop. 4,330) — 21st percentile — Below the median
Near the median on Household Characteristics; below the median on Socioeconomic Status, Racial & Ethnic Minority Status and Housing Type & Transportation.
Tract 9502.01 (pop. 2,604) — 21st percentile — Below the median
Near the median on Household Characteristics; below the median on Socioeconomic Status, Racial & Ethnic Minority Status and Housing Type & Transportation.
Tract 9508.02 (pop. 2,156) — 9th percentile — Well below the median
Below the median on Socioeconomic Status, Household Characteristics, Racial & Ethnic Minority Status and Housing Type & Transportation.
1 tract unranked — no population or suppressed
These carry no percentile (zero-population or suppressed data, typically water and special-use tracts). They are excluded from the bands, median and range above, and are never shown as a low score.
SVI = the CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index, recomputed by this platform from American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates using CDC's published method. Percentiles rank each tract against all U.S. tracts. "Vulnerability" is the name of CDC's index; the platform reports where a place ranks on it, and does not grade places or their residents.
Top-decile flags follow CDC's own convention (≥ 90th percentile) and are attributed as such; they are not part of an official CDC distribution.

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