Location risk: Spearman rank correlations between county demographic variables and three measures of hazardousness
| Number of full time employees | Number of chemicals* | Total hazard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| *Number of chemical used at facility above RMP*Info reporting threshold. | |||
| †Gini index of income inequality. Values in bold type significant at p⩽0.05. (Adjusted = partial correlations after adjusting for all other demographic variables.) | |||
| % African-American | 0.34 | 0.19 | −0.05 |
| Median household income | 0.25 | 0.08 | −0.04 |
| % Poverty | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.02 |
| Income inequality† | 0.10 | 0.09 | −0.03 |
| % No high school | 0.04 | 0.03 | −0.02 |
| % College | 0.20 | 0.10 | −0.04 |
| %Manufacturing | 0.19 | 0.04 | −0.03 |
| Total population | 0.39 | 0.16 | −0.09 |
| Adjusted | |||
| % African-American | 0.06 | 0.06 | −0.02 |
| Median household income | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| % Poverty | 0.02 | 0.08 | 0.07 |
| Income inequality† | −0.00 | −0.02 | −0.02 |
| % No high school | 0.08 | 0.00 | −0.06 |
| % College | 0.06 | 0.02 | −0.02 |
| %Manufacturing | 0.12 | 0.03 | 0.00 |
| Total population | 0.13 | 0.01 | −0.09 |