Table 2.

Summary of Food Store Counts in 65,174 United States Census Tracts, 2001

	Convenience Stores (mean (SD))	Grocery Stores (mean (SD))	Supermarkets (mean (SD))
Full Sample	1.37 (1.43)	1.17 (1.35)	0.23 (0.51)
Urban	0.89 (1.24)	0.79 (1.23)	0.24 (0.51)
Rural	1.66 (1.68)^c	1.32 (1.41)^c	0.22 (0.50) ^c
Low Poverty	1.21 (1.20)^b	0.76 (0.95)^b	0.26 (0.53)^b
Medium Poverty	1.59 (1.56)^a	1.33 (1.35)^a	0.24 (0.52)^a
High Poverty	1.38 (1.61)^a,^b	1.77 (1.72)^a,^b	0.16 (0.42)^a,^b
Predominantly White	1.10 (1.37)^e,^f	0.75 (1.10)^e,^f	0.26 (0.53)^e,^f
Predominantly Black	0.79 (1.25)^d,^e,^f	1.20 (1.39)^d,^f	0.09 (0.32)^d,^f
Predominantly Hispanic	0.96 (1.50)^d,^e	1.79 (1.92)^d,^e	0.18 (0.45)^d,^e
Predominantly Integrated	1.03 (1.45)^d,^e	1.14 (1.54)^d,^e,^f	0.22 (0.49)^d,^e
Predominantly White/Low Poverty	0.88 (1.17)	0.53 (0.86)	0.27 (0.54)
Predominantly White/Medium Poverty	1.51 (1.59)	1.12 (1.30)	0.25 (0.53)
Predominantly White/High Poverty	1.42 (1.60)	1.22 (1.49)	0.22 (0.50)
Predominantly Black/Low Poverty	0.45 (0.82)	0.49 (0.76)	0.16 (0.41)
Predominantly Black/ Medium Poverty	0.65 (1.09)	0.90 (1.15)	0.11 (0.34)
Predominantly Black/ High Poverty	0.88 (1.33)	1.39 (0.96)	0.08 (0.30)
Predominantly Hispanic/Low Poverty	0.63 (0.96)	0.69 (1.55)	0.26 (0.53)
Predominantly Hispanic/ Medium Poverty	0.79 (1.19)	1.31 (2.02)	0.23 (0.49)
Predominantly Hispanic/ High Poverty	1.05 (1.61)	2.04 (2.02)	0.16 (0.42)
Predominantly Integrated/Low Poverty	0.61 (0.95)	0.57 (0.99)	0.27 (0.53)
Predominantly Integrated/Medium Poverty	1.13 (1.48)	1.18 (1.44)	0.25 (0.52)
Predominantly Integrated/ High Poverty	1.23 (1.63)	1.51 (1.81)	0.17 (0.44)

significantly different than <10% poverty at p≤0.001

significantly different than 10–19.9% poverty at p≤0.001

significantly different than MSA at p≤0.001

significantly different than predominantly white at p≤0.001

significantly different than predominantly black at p≤0.001

significantly different than predominantly Hispanic at p≤0.01