Puerto Rico Population Distribution Map
Puerto Rico Population Distribution Map
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Population distribution across Puerto Rico's municipalities is illustrated here based on 2020 US Census data.
Where is Barrio Playa de Ponce?
Where is Barrio Playa de Ponce?
This interactive Google Map allows you to click, zoom and orient you to Ponce Playa on the world map.
What's happening with population loss?
What's happening with population loss?
Illustration of population loss in Puerto Rico and Playa de Ponce from US Census data 2010 and 2020.
Social vulnerability patterns
Social vulnerability patterns
According to the US Centers for Disease Control's Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), Puerto Rico as a whole, and starkly, many sectors of Playa de Ponce are highly vulnerable based on the 14 measures of vulnerability that the CDC uses from US Census data to compute the index. In the map on the left, social vulnerability may also correlate to the presence of toxic sites, in this case the presence of land fills (dumps). Literature on environmental justice (Bullard, 1996) links industrial operations to race and poverty, which, according the SVI contribute to social vulnerability.
Historic land-use changes and displacement
Historic land-use changes and displacement
As a port city dating more than 200 years, the municipality's coastal shoreline has been transformed due to industrial activity an residents living in informal housing and in vulnerable areas experience an historic pattern of displacement.
Housing vacancies today
Housing vacancies today
The shrinking neighborhood demonstrates particularly strong patterns of home vacancy in 2020 US Census Tracts Block data.
3-D Bathtub model of flooding
3-D Bathtub model of flooding
This 3D interactive visualization shows an imaginary scenario of Playa de Ponce inundated with three-meter sea-level rise. The map contains contamination data from two sources and shows the "special communities" in relation to flooding.
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