Trust for Public Land: ParkServe
| Details | Park Designation, Park Owner Type, Level of Access, Park Access Demographics within a 10-minute walk, park priority areas |
|---|---|
| Topics | health, physical activity, open space |
| Source | Trust for Public Land |
| Years Available | 2020 |
| Geographies | Polygon |
| Public Edition or Subscriber-only | Public Edition |
| Download Available | no |
| For more information | https://www.tpl.org/parkserve |
| Last updated on PolicyMap | November 2021 |
Description:
Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national non-profit that conserves land for social use. The TPL ParkServe dataset measures and analyzes access to parks in 14,000 urban areas across the United States. TPL established 10-minute walk service areas based on a nationwide walkable road network as part of an analysis of current access to parks in cities, towns, and communities. This analysis was created to ensure that everyone lives within easy walking distance of a well-maintained park. The ParkServe data shows the total population and other population demographics that are served within a10-minute walk by each park. The data also shows the designation type, access type, the owner level and size of each parks.
TPL has also published the results of their Park Priority Areas analysis. Park priority areas are areas of neighborhoods, defined here as Census block groups, that are not within a 10 minute walk of a park. These areas are ranked on the following criteria: people per acre, health, heat, respiratory hazard, density of low income households, and density of people of color. These criteria are standardized, weighted, and combined into a single score, which is then translated into a ranking for each city, where 1 is the lowest, and 3 is the highest need.
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The health criterion includes prevalence of poor mental health, and low physical activity, sourced from the CDC’s PLACES dataset, and ranked from 1 to 5 for each city. Respiratory hazard data is sourced from the EPA’s EJScreen dataset. Population of color and low income households data is sourced from ESRI’s 2020 Census Block Group Demographic Forecast.