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Published in final edited form as: Health Promot Pract. 2014 Oct 10;16(3):383–391. doi: 10.1177/1524839914554454

TABLE 1.

County Demographics

County	Population	Area (mi²)	Density (per mi²)	RUC^a Code	Poverty Rate	Per Capita Income, $	SNAP Cases/1,000 Population
FD-HP	16,100	495.1	32.5	7	30.0	24,635	187.7
U-MP	260,512	284.5	915.6	2	17.9	37,254	69.8
HP	12,578	230.7	54.5	7	37.6	24,147	172.8
U-LP	46,178	189.1	244.0	1	5.5	41,816	26.1

NOTE: SNAP = Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; FD-HP = rural food desert with a high poverty rate; U-MP = urban county with a midrange poverty level; HP = highest poverty; U-LP = urban county with lowest poverty level.

Rural–urban continuum.