Independent Living Access

Composite access score from healthcare, transportation, affordability, and safety proxies for daily independence.

Scale0-100

Higher values rank better for this score.

How It's Calculated

The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.

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Accessible Healthcare and Accessible Transportation are combined with published Housing Affordability and Safety scores.
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The formula is 30% accessible healthcare, 35% accessible transportation, 20% housing affordability, and 15% safety.

Technical details

Score TypeMaster Score

Read from the current master score table for this criterion.

Ranking BasisSingle Score

The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Independent Living Access.

No source details available for this score.

What This Score Means

Independent Living Access blends healthcare, transportation, affordability, and safety as a proxy for everyday independence.

Statistics Feeding This Score

Accessible healthcare
Published healthcare, hospital, emergency, primary-care, and mental-health access component scores.
Source: Published score components
Accessible transportation
Published car-light living, transit access, low car dependence, and walkability component scores.
Source: Published score components
Disability-status economic outcomes
ACS disability-status employment, poverty, and earnings estimates for residents age 16 and over.
Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year
Affordability and safety
Published Housing Affordability and Safety scores used as daily-support modifiers.
Source: Published score components

Source Data

Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-YearCensus ACS 5-year estimates for housing, income, population, occupation, education, and race/ethnicity inputs at place, county, or CBSA geography depending on the score.

Known Limits

These are practical support proxies, not direct audits of ADA compliance, sidewalk condition, housing accessibility, service waitlists, paratransit quality, or lived experience.
ACS disability-status estimates are multi-year estimates and can be noisy for small places; county fallback is used when place-level disability economic values are suppressed.
Healthcare, transportation, affordability, and safety components inherit the limitations of their underlying published scores.
Disability prevalence is shown as context, but it is not treated as good or bad in the score formula.

Top 10 Locations

Ranked by Independent Living Access.

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