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Access to Healthy Food Indicator

Access to Healthy Food measures the percentage of residents who live in census tracts in the City of St. Louis with low access to healthy food

Latest Measure (2016)

Access to Healthy Food Score 45 Indicator scores are represented on a scale from 1 to 100.
Disparity Ratio 1.89 Disparity direction: black-white
Residents who live in census tracts with low access to healthy foods

Black residents are nearly twice as likely as white residents to live in census tracts with low access to healthy food.

Source: USDA Food Access Research Atlas; American Community Survey 5-year estimates

Dates

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