Table 1.

Characteristics of non-Southern WIHS participants’ block groups and census tracts.

		Bronx	Brooklyn	Washington, DC	San Francisco	Chicago	US
		Median block group density (per square mile)					Total
Population Density		69,900	57,800	7,800	13,700	12,200	89
		Medians					Total
Tract descriptors	Uninsured	14.7	13.5	8.5	14.8	18.5	14.2
	Publicly insured	51.3	44.7	30.3	33.1	43.1	31.1
	Below PL	31.2	24.8	13.4	20.5	28.3	14.6
	Male below PL	28.4	23.3	11.2	19.3	26.7	13.1
	Female below PL	33.1	27.2	14.1	22.4	29.5	15.8
	Own race <PLa	30.7	25.6	16.4	24.4	31.9	n/a
Block group descriptors	Age 0–17	26.5	24.6	21.9	18.6	24.5	23.5
	Age 18–64	63.1	63.9	66.4	68.3	62.4	62.5
	Age 65+	9.6	10.9	9.1	9.8	10.7	13.8
	Male (adult)	43.9	41.6	46.9	49.3	46.0	49.2
	Female (adult)	56.1	58.4	53.1	50.7	54.0	50.8
	White	14.6	10.8	26.8	44.5	17.9	73.8
	Black	35.7	72.0	54.8	14.5	64	12.6
	Asian	0.7	0.9	1.8	13.9	0	5.0
	Other	30.9	6.8	1.4	7.6	0.6	5.7
	2+ races	2.7	1.2	2.0	4.7	0.9	2.9
	Hispanic ethnicity	52.0	15.4	7.0	20.5	5.4	16.9
	Completed HS	67.5	79.0	87.6	83.6	81.3	86.3
	Income
	<$10,000	17.5	13.6	6.0	8.2	13.1	7.2
	$10,000-$29,999	29.6	26.9	14.9	25.6	26.2	21.1
	$30,000-$59,999	26.4	24.4	22.7	23.7	27.0	26.5
	$60,000-$99,999	13.3	17.6	21.9	17.3	16.5	22.1
	≥$100,000	7.3	11.0	26.9	17.1	9.0	23.0
		Proportion of Income Spent (%)
	Housing and transportation	66.3	67.5	65.9	64.3	69.8	n/a
	Transportation	16.4	17.3	18.4	20.4	22.9	n/a

PL poverty line, HS high school

^aParticipants were assigned the proportion below poverty of their self-identified racial/ethnic group (i.e., if a participant identified as black, their own race proportion below the poverty level was used) in this order: Hispanic, white, black, Asian, other