The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) is committed to upholding the principles and intentions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and related nondiscrimination statutes in all of the Commission’s work, including publications, products, communications, public input, and decision-making processes. Language barriers may prohibit people who are Limited in English Proficiency (also known as LEP persons) from obtaining services, information, or participating in public planning processes. To better identify LEP populations and thoroughly evaluate the Commission’s efforts to provide meaningful access, DVRPC has produced this Limited-English Proficiency Plan. This is the data that was used to make the maps for the upcoming plan.

Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA), are geographies of at least 100,000 people that are nested within states or equivalent entities. States are able to delineate PUMAs within their borders, or use PUMA Criteria provided by the Census Bureau.

Census tables used to gather data from the 2017- 2021 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates

ACS 2016-2020, Table B16001: Language Spoken at Home by Ability to Speak English for the Population 5 Years and Over.

ACS data are derived from a survey and are subject to sampling variablity.

*Limited English Proficiency (LEP) refers to those persons that speak English less than "very well". DVRPC has mapped the below Language Groups for our Plan.

• Spanish

• Russian

• Chinese

• Korean

• Vietnamese

Source of PUMA boundaries: US Census Bureau. The TIGER/Line Files

Please refer to U:\_OngoingProjects\LEP\ACS_5YR_B16001_PUMAs_metadata.xlsx for full attribute loop up and fields used in making the DVRPC LEP Map Series.

Please contact Chris Pollard (cpollard@dvrpc.org) should you have any questions about this dataset.