emburden: Processed Energy Burden Datasets (US Nationwide)

PROCESSED, analysis-ready household energy burden datasets from the DOE Low-Income Energy Affordability Data (LEAD) Tool, formatted for the emburden R package. Scope: All 51 US states and territories (50 states + DC) IMPORTANT: These are PRE-PROCESSED datasets, not raw OpenEI data. They have been:

• Aggregated by census tract + income bracket
• Enriched with computed energy burden metrics (EROI, NER, DEAR)
• Standardized for immediate analysis
• Quality-checked and validated

This repository provides census tract-level data on household energy burden for the entire United States, covering ~73,000 census tracts. Data includes both Area Median Income (AMI) and Federal Poverty Line (FPL) cohort analyses for 2018 and 2022 vintages.

Files Included:

• lead_ami_cohorts_2022_us.csv.gz: 2022 AMI cohort data (701,490 records, 148 MB)
• lead_fpl_cohorts_2022_us.csv.gz: 2022 FPL cohort data (588,163 records, 52 MB)
• lead_ami_cohorts_2018_us.csv.gz: 2018 AMI cohort data (530,500 records, 54 MB)
• lead_fpl_cohorts_2018_us.csv.gz: 2018 FPL cohort data (514,893 records, 53 MB)
• checksums.txt: MD5 checksums for verification

Total size: 307 MB compressed

Data Processing

• Source: Raw LEAD Tool data from OpenEI
• Processing: emburden R package v0.4.8 data pipeline
• Format: CSV (aggregated tract-level cohorts with computed metrics)
• Ready for: Immediate analysis, no additional processing required

Coverage

• States: All 51 (50 states + DC, excludes PR)
• Census Tracts: ~73,000 nationwide
• Total Records: 2.3+ million cohort observations
• Income Brackets: 4-6 per dataset/vintage

Data Sources

Original raw data from:

• DOE LEAD Tool 2022: https://data.openei.org/submissions/6219
• DOE LEAD Tool 2018: https://data.openei.org/submissions/573

Processed using: emburden R package v0.4.8 (https://github.com/ScheierVentures/emburden)

Citation

When using this data, please cite:

1. This Zenodo repository (DOI provided)
2. The emburden R package v0.4.8
3. The original DOE LEAD Tool publications

License

CC-BY-4.0 (same as source data)