Table 1.

Demographics of participating communities^a

Town/city	Charleston	Oxford	Saltillo
Population densityb	23.8	75.0	184.3
% of population identified as African American	56.3%	23.8%	29.4%
% of population below the poverty line	32.9%	21%	17.4%

^aAll data presented in this table comes from the most recent census data available from the State of Mississippi [11]

^bMeasured as persons/square mile