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In general, resilience refers to the ability to respond and recover from a disaster.  While it can be tempting to see vulnerability and resilience as opposite sides of the same coin, this is not always the case.  A community with a large vulnerable population can still have high levels of resilience. 

In addition to providing data from the 2023 American Community Survey 5-year estimates, this issue of Kentucky: By The Numbers includes two maps as a way to visualize county results from the Community Resilience Estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau (https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/community-resilience-estimates.html) and the Community Resilience component of the FEMA National Risk Index which uses a different measure of resilience (https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/community-resilience).  On each website, zoom in to see below the county level.

For counties with small populations and small population groups, the margins of error (indicated by a +/-___) can be quite large.  The margin of error tells us how precise the estimate is by indicating the range within which the estimate most likely falls.  For help in understanding the margin of error, see the brief Kentucky: By The Numbers publication “And Now for the Grain of Salt.”
 

County Data Sheets

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State Level Data

Adair            Allen             Anderson              Ballard                  Barren

Bath              Bell                Boone                 Bourbon                Boyd

Boyle            Bracken           Breathitt            Breckinridge          Bullitt

Butler            Caldwell          Calloway          Campbell               Carlisle

Carroll            Carter             Casey             Christian                  Clark

Clay                Clinton          Crittenden       Cumberland            Daviess

Edmonson      Elliott             Estill                 Fayette                   Fleming

Floyd              Franklin             Fulton                  Gallatin                Garrard

Grant              Graves               Grayson               Green                  Greenup

Hancock          Hardin               Harlan                  Harrison              Hart

Henderson       Henry                Hickman               Hopkins              Jackson

Jefferson          Jessamine           Johnson               Kenton                Knott

Knox                 LaRue                 Laurel                   Lawrence            Lee

Leslie               Letcher                Lewis                     Lincoln              Livingston

Logan              Lyon                    McCracken            McCreary           McLean

Madison          Magoffin             Marion                   Marshall             Martin

Mason             Meade                 Menifee                 Mercer                Metcalfe

Monroe           Montgomery        Morgan                 Muhlenberg       Nelson

Nicholas          Ohio                     Oldham                 Owen                 Owsley

Pendleton        Perry                     Pike                       Powell                 Pulaski

Robertson       Rockcastle             Rowan                   Russell                 Scott

Shelby              Simpson               Spencer                 Taylor                  Todd

Trigg                 Trimble                 Union                    Warren                Washington

Wayne              Webster               Whitley                  Wolfe                  Woodford

Data Sources

These data are from the 2023 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

Additional data can be accessed at https://data.census.gov/