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Yeah, 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/blo

• ghaff 4y ago
  That 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 ago
    It'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!