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It's not just 10 miles, it's 10 miles and being a low income tract which they define as average household income below 80% of state median or >20% households in
by mikeyouse 4y ago
It's not just 10 miles, it's 10 miles and being a low income tract which they define as average household income below 80% of state median or >20% households in the tract being below the poverty line. So trying to measure where the poorest areas have the most limited access.
- ghaff 4y agoI'm guessing the income criteria is satisfied in a lot of rural areas however.
- mikeyouse 4y agoYeah, you're not wrong, here's the 2010 map; https://assets.aecf.org/m/blogimg/blog-exploringamericasfooddeserts-2021.png https://assets.aecf.org/m/blogimg/blog-exploringamericasfood...
- ghaff 4y agoThat map looks to me as if it's much more about poorer rural areas that are more than 10 miles from a grocery store than inner cities.
- mikeyouse 4y agoIt's as misleading in that way as the big silly maps they show around election time -- since we care about the number of people, not the number of acres. There are 19 million people in the shaded areas. If we bump up the criteria to 1 mile urban / 20 miles rural, it's still over 17 million people, so clearly a lot of the people at discussion are in urban areas. Even so, it looks like another half million people are over 20 miles from a store who don't have access to a vehicle. Not great!
- bluGill 4y agoHow are you defining rural? The people who live in small towns in farm country, or the farmers living on their farm. In general farmers are not poor, but the people who live in the towns around them often are. It takes a lot of money to run a farm, you have to be great at business as you will have several years in a row where you lose $100,000 - over the long term though things work out to making a lot of money on farms.