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Published in final edited form as: Prev Med. 2010 Apr 18;51(1):63–67. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2010.04.009

Table 1.

Characteristics of census tracts by racial composition, New Orleans, LA, 2004-2005

Characteristic	African-American Tracts			Mixed Racial Tracts
	n = 83			n = 92

	Min.	Mean (SD)	Max.	Min.	Mean (SD)	Max.
Population size	660	2946 (1683)	9931	510	2591 (1596)	8988
Population density, pop/km²	41	4544 (2535)	15546	13	3167 (1626)^*	6768
Household income, $	4621	19255 (8042)	40227	6875	37502 (21447)^*	146158
Poverty rate, %	7.8	39.7 (17.6)	88.2	1.3	21.4 (13.1)^*	54.0
Car ownership rate, %	15.4	58.7 (18.9)	95.8	33.5	78.9 (14.2)^*	98.4
African-American, % ^a	80.0	92.3 (5.6)	99.3	0.2	38.1 (26.3)	79.9

^*

p< 0.01

^a

Statistical test not performed because differences based on the definition used to construct tract categories.