Lake County Indiana Neighborhoods at High-Risk for Lead Poisoning

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Lake County, Indiana

Neighborhoods at High-Risk for Lead Poisoned Children

Maps provided by Chris Ulsas of the Indiana State Department of Health. The brown areas are the neighborhoods where ISDH estimated that between 20% and 40% of the children 6 years old or younger are lead poisoned. Children in these neighborhoods are considered at high-risk to get lead poisoning. The other areas have may have up to 20% of of the children lead poisoned. Numbers by the name are the zip code for the neighborhood. Click on the name for a jpeg image of the community. Download times for the jpeg images are two to three minutes.