Historical 1930s HOLC Redlining, Household Broadband & Device Access (ACS 2020–2024), and Local Facilities
Within the Pleasant Hill reference view crossed by 1937 HOLC Grade D polygon D13, Census block group Z2 (130210101003) along Ward St and Pursley St has 56.9% household internet access (132 of 232 households; 43.1% without internet), trailing adjacent Z3 (130210102001) across Sycamore St (90.3%, 967 of 1,071 households) by 33.4 percentage points.
All 136 populated Census block groups reconcile exactly to the published Macon-Bibb County ACS 2020–2024 total (95% CI: 88.40%–90.80%), compared to 93.39% in Georgia and 93.49% nationwide. Countywide, 6,231 households (10.4%) have no internet, 11.8% rely on cellular data only, and 7.3% have no computer.
Standard errors for 109 block groups use first-order ratio linearization across 80 official ACS Successive Difference Replication (SDR) weights; 27 invariant block groups use published-MOE subset approximations. Across Layer 2, 62 of 136 block groups have a 90% MOE exceeding ±10 percentage points.
Across the 13 Southern states, the 2,972 unique Census block groups overlapping historical HOLC Grade D ("Hazardous") polygons trail the Southern statewide household connectivity benchmark by −3.28 percentage points (1,254,640 of 1,401,248 Grade D overlap households vs. 42,252,804 of 45,523,862 statewide households).
Every state and regional rate below is calculated strictly from summed household numerators divided by summed household denominators (R_G = ΣY_i / ΣN_i), never by averaging neighborhood percentages. Click any row to inspect its cities.
| Order | State | Region | HOLC Cities (n) | Census BGs | HOLC Polygons (Grade D) | Unique Grade D BGs (Wide CI) | Grade D Overlap Access (%) | Statewide Benchmark (%) | Grade D Gap (pp) |
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Household internet access is reported for entire Census block groups. Overlap with a historical HOLC polygon does not estimate the rate inside that polygon or show a causal effect.
The full atlas preserves the Pleasant Hill neighborhood, city, county, state and project region views. City and county benchmarks use separate published records; project region rates use summed state household counts.
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