BROWN / UMIAMI
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DISPARITIES
CANCER DATA
The maps below show cancer rates across census tracts in Miami-Dade County. The data are adapted from Florida Health's 2014–2018 cancer data. (Created using QGIS software)
Click on the arrows on the left and right of the images to cycle through different cancer maps.
Data compiled and analyzed by Carl-Axel Lagercrantz, Jacqueline Rice, & Yuna Sato
POVERTY & RACE DATA
The maps below use data sourced from Florida and the United States Census Bureau.
Interpretations
Our goal in creating the above maps is to shed light on the public health disparities caused by environmental injustices such as with the City of Miami Incinerator #2, colloquially known as Old Smokey, which spewed ash and toxic fumes into the neighborhood of West Coconut Grove, Miami-Dade County, Florida. The incinerator was located in census tract 72 of Miami-Dade County. The U.S. Census Bureau map below shows this area to have a large African-American population (along with neighboring tract 71.01).
Race Data
The map to the left is a map showing the total African-American Population from the U.S. Census Bureau.
These two census tracts (71.01 and 72) had relatively high rates of poverty, pancreatic cancer deaths, and lung cancer deaths.
Race Data (white alone) Cancer Data
