The interactive map below shows the percentage of occupied housing units without air conditioning (A/C) for Bexar, Atascosa, Blanco, Comal, Guadalupe, Gillespie, Kendall, Llano, and Mason Counties.
Percent of occupied housing units without Air Conditioning (A/C) in Bexar and surrounding counties by census tract (2023):
U.S. Census Bureau LACE dataset 2023
Surrounding counties include: Atascosa, Blanco, Comal, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Kendall, Llano, and Mason.
Best viewed on a tablet or desktop
New Local Air Conditioning Estimates (LACE) data from the Census is now available for 2023.
The data, “provides national to neighborhood estimates of households with and without air conditioning, closing a critical data gap for researchers, planners, and local governments working to better understand and address extreme heat risk.” Visit the Census site to learn more: https://www.census.gov/data/experimental-data-products/lace.html
- Click on a census tract to view more details (including number of occupied housing units and percent with and without A/C)
- Please note that census tracts for some of the rural counties are much larger than what you would see for Bexar County
- To ZOOM in and out on a desktop with a mouse: Click on CTRL and scroll
- The percentages for homes without A/C ranges between 0% (blue) and 4.1% (orange). While the numbers may seem small, they represent real households and families.
Want to dig deeper? Explore more local data on Bexar Data Dive like the Energy Burden indicator. Energy Burden = Percentage of gross household income spent on energy costs. Energy burden is defined as the average annual housing energy costs divided by the average annual household income.
Shout out to Kyle Walker for sharing the R code #DataDemocratization
Kyle Walker is a data scientist, researcher, and creator of open-source R and Python software packages for mapping and analyzing US demographic trends.
