Table 1.
Ethnic composition of TX census blocks in the study area with the mean number of flares or active oil and gas extraction wells within 5 kilometers (based on census blocks) between 2012–2016.
| Unconventional Oil & Gas Wells within 5km | Flares within 5km | ||||||
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| Hispanic Percent | Population | Population | Percent of Population | Mean # of Wells | Population | Percent of Population | Mean # of nightly flare events |
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| 0 – 20% | 266988 | 175989 | 65.9 | 25.4 | 65438 | 24.5 | 72.6 |
| 20 – 40% | 122214 | 68017 | 55.7 | 23.7 | 25378 | 20.8 | 74.2 |
| 40 – 60% | 78279 | 47201 | 60.3 | 26 | 21266 | 27.2 | 105.0 |
| 60 – 80% | 62887 | 38482 | 61.2 | 24.5 | 13331 | 21.2 | 114.0 |
| 80 – 100% | 138486 | 72597 | 52.4 | 27.3 | 35719 | 25.8 | 117.0 |
| Total | 668854 | 398712 | 59.6 | 25.5 | 161132 | 24.1 | 89.1 |