Percentage of total population within a designated area that is identified as both “low income” and having “low access” to healthy food. Low income is defined as Low income is defined as having an annual family income at or below 200 percent of the Federal poverty threshold. Low access is defined as population that is beyond 1 mile for urban areas or 10 miles for rural areas from a supermarket. Note that there are many ways to measure food access for individuals and for neighborhoods, and many ways to define which areas are food deserts (neighborhoods that lack healthy food sources). Explore the USDA Food Access Research Atlas for more information: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/.
This dataset has the following 7 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|
| Place Type | place_type | text | Census Tract County State Place Country view top 100 |
| Place | place | text | 53061052207 53061041904 53061041500 53061040800 53061040100 view top 100 |
| Year | year | calendar_date | 2019-01-01T00:00:00.000 view top 100 |
| Population | population | number | 5469.0 4114.0 5791.0 5117.0 2810.0 view top 100 |
| Population Low Income and Access | population_low_income_and | number | 0.0 4.0 6.0 7.0 12.0 view top 100 |
| Percent of Population Low Income and Access | percent_of_population_low | number | 0.0 0.0009 0.0012 0.0017 0.0021 view top 100 |
| geometry | geometry | multipolygon | view top 100 |