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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Community Health. 2011 Aug;36(4):675–683. doi: 10.1007/s10900-011-9359-5

Table 3.

Public and private transportation time to mammography facilities by household availability of a private vehicle and by race/ethnicity, Fulton and DeKalb counties

# Tracts Majority black women 40 years of age and older # Tracts Majority white women 40 years of age and older


Mean Median 25% 75% Mean Median 25% 75%
Public transportation time (minutes) 154 115
Low vehicle access (NVA > 20%) 80 39.4 39.5 26.6 49.3 2 18.5 13.1 13.1 31.9
Medium vehicle access (NVA 5–20%) 56 60.5 57.6 48.4 71.6 62 43.6 38.7 29.1 49.5
High vehicle access (NVA < 5%) 18 80.0 70.2 59.4 94.5 51 66.3 59.0 45.2 76.3
Georgia Cancer Screening Program public transportation time (minutes) 154 115
Low vehicle access (NVA > 20%) 80 45.1 47.2 34.6 53.8 2 34.6 35.7 31.9 35.7
Medium vehicle access (NVA 5–20%) 56 70.4 69.8 50.6 87.9 62 59.0 53.2 39.6 76.1
High vehicle access (NVA < 5%) 18 106.9 98.0 86.2 131.5 51 108.5 104.6 74.4 128.4
Private transportation time (minutes) 154 115
Low vehicle access (NVA > 20%) 80 5.1 5.4 3.5 6.4 2 1.5 0.8 0.8 3.1
Medium vehicle access (NVA 5–20%) 56 7.8 7.6 5.5 9.2 62 5.5 4.7 3.0 6.5
High vehicle access (NVA < 5%) 18 9.5 9.5 8.0 10.2 51 6.9 6.2 4.9 8.9
Georgia Cancer Screening Program private transportation time (minutes) 154 115
Low vehicle access (NVA > 20%) 80 5.5 5.4 3.9 7.0 2 4.7 5.3 3.1 5.3
Medium vehicle access (NVA 5–20%) 56 10.1 9.9 6.4 13.4 62 7.5 6.5 4.3 9.6
High vehicle access (NVA < 5%) 18 15.3 15.2 13.2 18.4 51 13.8 13.5 7.1 20.0

NVA No vehicle access