New Maps – Hospital Drive Time

This layer displays the average drive time to the nearest hospital. Drive times were calculated by CARES using the centroid of each 2020 census block with a population over 0, road networks from OpenStreetMaps and hospital locations from CMS Providers of Service. Travel times were estimated using road distances, speeds, and network connectivity rather than straight-line distances or real-time traffic conditions. Block-level results were aggregated to Census tracts and counties using 2020 population-weighted averages. Areas without sufficient routing data were excluded from the calculations.