Jan 8, 2025 · The Food Access Research Atlas (formerly the Food Desert Locator) is a mapping tool that allows users to investigate multiple indicators of food store access.

May 10, 2011 · The Food Desert Locator provides a spatial overview of low-income neighborhoods with high concentrations of people who are far from a supermarket or large grocery store. This mapping tool will allow users to map food deserts-areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious foods-and view census tract-level statistics on population groups ...

You can search this map to see which parts of your city have low access to food using different metrics including those who are 1 mile from a supermarket in an urban area, those who are more...

May 3, 2011 · A new interactive tool launched by USDA allows users to locate food deserts. In the Food Desert Locator developed by USDA’s Economic Research Service, a food desert census tract is defined as a low-income tract where a substantial number or substantial share of residents does not have easy access to a supermarket or large grocery store.

The food insecurity rate in Pennsylvania was 9.4% in 2021. Explore a map of hunger statistics in Pennsylvania at the state and local level.

Jan 30, 2023 · The maps shown in this Storymap demonstrate some signs of food deserts, although they are less extreme than many other examples across the country. In the end, the point of food deserts still stands, and they must be acknowledged, researched, and mapped to help reduce the problem and provide better solutions.

Jul 7, 2022 · Moving towards the northern regions in Philadelphia, low median household income and medium to high unemployment rates exist. There are many factors that play into how and why a food desert exists in certain locations of a city, and having thematic maps displaying different features helps to identify existing patterns.

Nov 5, 2023 · Neighborhoods and towns where grocery stores are harder to access are called 'food deserts.' These food deserts are more common in areas with high unemployment rates, lower rates of education, and in areas of lower income (usda.gov). These food deserts exist because big grocery store brands like Kroger and Safeway would take in more profits by ...

Discover, analyze and download data from Food Deserts. Download in CSV, KML, Zip, GeoJSON, GeoTIFF or PNG. Find API links for GeoServices, WMS, and WFS. Analyze with charts and thematic maps. Take the next step and create StoryMaps and Web Maps.

Indicators displaying the percentage of population with low food access and population living in food deserts have been updated. The updated data were released in April, 2021 and reflect conditions on the ground in the year 2019. This update replaces previous indicator data reflecting conditions 2015.