Transit Access and Neighborhood Income Across Chicago

A descriptive map of where Chicago rail reaches shows station density, step-free access, and transit-commute reliance varying across neighborhood inco

The real public data behind Transit Access and Neighborhood Income Across Chicago. CTA System Information - List of 'L' Stops. Files are hosted here directly so the analysis is reproducible; analysis.py reads only these files and prints the figures the paper reports.

• analysis.py

  Reproducible pandas script. Verifies the developments file is a subset of the portfolio, isolates OCII Western Addition-Area 2 (21 developments / 914 units / 821 income-restricted), tabulates tenure a

  Source: Chicago Transit Authority via City of Chicago Data Portal (Socrata)

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  This file is not a tabular CSV. Use the download button above to save it locally.

• chicago-community-area-socioeconomic.csv

  Census selected socioeconomic indicators per community area (per-capita income, hardship index, poverty and unemployment shares) from the 2008 to 2012 ACS. 77 community-area rows plus one citywide row

  Source: Chicago Transit Authority via City of Chicago Data Portal (Socrata)

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• chicago-community-areas.geojson

  Boundaries of the 77 Chicago community areas (City of Chicago Data Portal, Socrata igwz-8jzy), reused from the chicago-transit-access-income dataset, used for point-in-polygon assignment of stations a

  Source: Chicago Transit Authority via City of Chicago Data Portal (Socrata)

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  This file is not a tabular CSV. Use the download button above to save it locally.

• cta-l-stops.csv

  CTA System Information List of L Stops, full table of 302 platform/direction records (144 unique stations) with stop_id, station_name, map_id, ada flag, per-line boolean flags, and parsed lat/lng in t

  Source: Chicago Transit Authority via City of Chicago Data Portal (Socrata)

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• cta-ridership-2023-annual-by-station.csv

  Total full-year 2023 CTA rail entries per station, aggregated from the daily-totals dataset by station_id (equals map_id in the stops file). 143 stations. Source City of Chicago Data Portal Socrata 5n

  Source: Chicago Transit Authority via City of Chicago Data Portal (Socrata)

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