Fig. 8. Comparison between all census tracts and the impacted census tracts due to pipe bursts in Harris County from the aspects of income, race, and ethnicity.

The aspects of income, race, and ethnicity are represented by a median household income, b Black and Hispanic population ratio. The impacted census tracts have a lower median income and higher median ratios of Black and Hispanic populations, indicating that the low income and high ratio of Black populations census tracts experienced greater impacts of pipe bursts during the winter storm.