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Overview

The Food Desert Locator:

  • presents a spatial overview of where food-desert census tracts are located;
  • provides selected population characteristics of food-desert census tracts; and
  • offers data on food-desert census tracts that can be downloaded for community planning or research purposes.

 What can you do with the Locator?

  • Create maps showing food-desert census tracts;
  • View statistics on selected population characteristics in food-desert census tracts; and
  • Download census-tract level data from food-desert tracts.

Enter Map or Atlas

The Food Environment Atlas provides a wider set of statistics on food choices, health and well-being, and community characteristics for all communities in the U.S. than the Food Desert Locator. 

 

Last updated: Friday, July 06, 2012

For more information contact: Michele Ver Ploeg and Vince Breneman