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What is the connection between the Delta Environmental Justice (EJ) Community and the Distressed Communities Index? Today's post will continue with data from Chapter 1 of our report, "The Fate of the Delta".

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The mere presence of environmental justice communities does not tell the full story of the economic and public health challenges some of the most vulnerable Delta-area residents face.

To help describe what these populations are up against, recent studies use a “Distressed Communities Index” (DCI) to suggest the difficulties Delta EJ communities face.

• Distress scores are calculated, according to an Economic Innovation Group study, “based on a geography’s rank on each of the seven equally weighted variables.

• The ranks are then averaged and normalized to be equivalent to percentiles, resulting in distress scores between 0 and 100. The higher the distress score, the greater the distress.

• Among Delta region counties, Contra Costa County has the lowest distress score of 8.1, while San Joaquin County has the highest distress score at 58.5 (out of a possible 100).

• The study estimated that 43 percent of San Joaquin County’s population resides in distressed zip codes.

• The City of Stockton was ranked sixth nationally (and first state-wide) among the most distressed large cities with a distress score of 95.2; 70.2 percent of the city’s population lives in distressed zip codes.

• Four of Stockton’s zip codes had distress scores exceeding 90 (95202, 95203, 95205, and 95210), and three more had distress scores exceeding 80 (95204, 95206, and 95207).

• The zip code for French Camp, adjacent to Stockton, had a distress score of 95.4. (Appendix 2, p. 2, Distress Score Column.)

• Of the Delta cities measured in the study, Stockton had the highest distress score (95.2), while Sacramento had a distress score of 77.5. The study also included Antioch (distress score of 77.0) and Pittsburg (67.6).

Check back later today for more from Chapter 1.