Week 6

The problem this analysis addresses is figuring out the best spot to relocate a pair of grandparents. The geographic area in the analysis is Alachua County. The criteria set by the grandparents is finding a high house value neighborhood with a high percentage of 65 year olds within close proximity of the University of Florida, North Florida Regional Medical Center, Local community centers, bus routes, and family. Using ArcMap spatial analysis tools, maps of weighted criteria were produced. These maps take each criterion into account and use calculations to find an area that best meets all the criteria. Before that was done distance analysis was done for reach criteria.

The maps above represent three of the criteria: distance to community centers, distance to the medical center, and distance to the University of Florida. The smaller numbers on the legend represent areas closer to the criteria’s location and the larger numbers represent areas farther away. Each ring is around 2.7 miles.


The map shows areas that best meet the criteria in green and areas that do not meet the criteria in red. The map on the left had criteria weighted as equally as possible and the map on the left is disproportionally weighted with stronger emphasis on the age of people in the area. Based on information provided by these maps I would recommend Alachua region would best suit the grandparent’s needs.