Table 1.
The population-weighted distances to parks (miles) by urban-rural continuum, race/ethnicity and census block group poverty status in 2008.
| Geography | Poverty | ALL | White | Black | Asian | Other | Hispanic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | ALL | 6.7 | 7.6 | 5.8 | 2.5 | 11.4 | 4.4 |
| US | LOW | 5.9 | 6.5 | 5.1 | 2.4 | 6.5 | 4.0 |
| US | MEDIUM | 8.9 | 11.0 | 7.2 | 2.8 | 12.2 | 4.9 |
| US | HIGH | 6.9 | 9.3 | 5.5 | 2.7 | 22.0 | 4.6 |
| Large central metro | ALL | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| large fringe metro | ALL | 3.0 | 3.2 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 2.8 | 2.3 |
| Medium metro | ALL | 6.8 | 6.9 | 7.8 | 3.6 | 6.5 | 6.1 |
| Small metro | ALL | 14.5 | 14.3 | 16.0 | 13.0 | 19.3 | 13.5 |
| Micropolitan | ALL | 15.0 | 14.2 | 18.3 | 15.4 | 19.7 | 18.4 |
| Noncore | ALL | 22.2 | 20.7 | 23.5 | 37.2 | 46.4 | 24.2 |
| Large central metro | LOW | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| Large central metro | MEDIUM | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| Large central metro | HIGH | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.9 |
| large fringe metro | LOW | 2.9 | 3.1 | 2.4 | 1.7 | 2.7 | 2.4 |
| large fringe metro | MEDIUM | 3.7 | 4.5 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 3.2 | 2.6 |
| large fringe metro | HIGH | 2.4 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 3.0 | 1.9 |
| Medium metro | LOW | 6.5 | 6.7 | 7.7 | 3.7 | 5.9 | 5.2 |
| Medium metro | MEDIUM | 7.9 | 8.4 | 9.1 | 3.9 | 7.5 | 6.0 |
| Medium metro | HIGH | 6.6 | 6.2 | 6.9 | 3.1 | 7.0 | 7.1 |
| Small metro | LOW | 14.0 | 13.9 | 15.7 | 12.8 | 16.0 | 14.0 |
| Small metro | MEDIUM | 15.4 | 15.3 | 17.0 | 13.0 | 19.0 | 14.4 |
| Small metro | HIGH | 14.6 | 14.5 | 15.4 | 13.4 | 25.8 | 12.1 |
| Micropolitan | LOW | 14.1 | 13.8 | 16.6 | 15.3 | 16.1 | 16.0 |
| Micropolitan | MEDIUM | 15.8 | 14.9 | 19.4 | 15.2 | 18.8 | 18.3 |
| Micropolitan | HIGH | 17.1 | 14.3 | 18.7 | 15.8 | 26.8 | 21.5 |
| Noncore | LOW | 19.7 | 19.2 | 21.6 | 48.0 | 26.9 | 22.4 |
| Noncore | MEDIUM | 22.2 | 21.6 | 23.6 | 28.7 | 34.0 | 22.9 |
| Noncore | HIGH | 28.2 | 23.0 | 24.4 | 23.9 | 65.3 | 28.8 |