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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Place. 2015 Apr 10;34:19–29. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.03.010

Table 2.

Variability of county-level variables across urban-rural classifications

Physical inactivity rate Obesity rate Racial-ethnic heterogeneity Poverty rate Street connectivity Walk score Food environment Urban ratio
Large central metro −5.254*** (−8.55) −5.359*** (−9.96) 0.296*** (15.19) −0.753 (−0.96) 97.903*** (44.37) 15.137*** (8.24) 0.440*** (5.11) 0.877*** (29.15)
Large fringe metro −2.765*** (−9.49) −2.261*** (−8.86) 0.080*** (8.66) −6.085*** (−16.41) 22.407*** (21.41) 3.628*** (4.16) 0.257*** (6.29) 0.396*** (28.40)
Medium metro −1.882*** (−6.47) −1.175** (−4.61) 0.087*** (9.45) −2.062*** (−5.57) 11.312*** (10.83) 4.262*** (4.90) 0.235*** (5.76) 0.366*** (25.61)
Small metro −1.741*** (−5.89) −0.907*** (−3.51) 0.057*** (6.14) −1.487*** (−3.96) 6.274*** (5.91) 3.613*** (4.09) 0.197*** (4.76) 0.316*** (22.31)
Micropolitan −0.766*** (−3.21) −0.260 (−1.24) 0.028*** (3.77) −0.242 (−0.80) 2.277** (2.66) 3.047*** (4.27) 0.166*** (4.97) 0.167*** (15.29)
Non-core 26.908*** (197.26) 31.259 (261.63) 0.188*** (43.40) 18.437*** (106.22) 4.976*** (10.16) 8.869*** (21.74) 0.817*** (42.70) 0.080*** (12.66)
R2 0.051 0.051 0.095 0.085 0.428 0.029 0.025 0.389
***

p≤ 0.001,

**

p≤ 0.01,

*

p≤ 0.05