Table 1. Characteristics of Census Tracts in Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles, California; and New York City, New York, in 2015.
| Census Tract Characteristics | No. (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago | Los Angeles | New York City | ||||
| Total Census Tracts (n = 798) | Low-Access Census Tracts (n = 367)a | Total Census Tracts (n = 1006) | Low-Access Census Tracts (n = 416)a | Total Census Tracts (n = 2128) | Low-Access Census Tracts (n = 225)a | |
| Total residents, No. | ||||||
| <2000 | 201 (25.2) | 104 (28.3) | 26 (2.6) | 16 (3.8) | 340 (16.0) | 47 (20.9) |
| 2000-3999 | 326 (40.9) | 148 (40.3) | 550 (54.7) | 220 (52.9) | 914 (43.0) | 87 (38.7) |
| 4000-5999 | 195 (24.4) | 88 (24.0) | 378 (37.6) | 162 (38.9) | 550 (25.8) | 62 (27.6) |
| ≥6000 | 76 (9.5) | 27 (7.4) | 52 (5.2) | 18 (4.3) | 323 (15.2) | 29 (12.9) |
| Racial/ethnic composition | ||||||
| White majority | 242 (30.3) | 59 (16.1) | 272 (27.0) | 166 (39.9) | 712 (33.5) | 111 (49.3) |
| Black majority | 280 (35.1) | 205 (55.9) | 27 (2.7) | 24 (5.8) | 455 (21.4) | 62 (27.6) |
| Hispanic/Latino majority | 168 (21.1) | 73 (19.9) | 492 (48.9) | 156 (37.5) | 407 (19.1) | 2 (0.9) |
| Other majority or integrated | 108 (13.5) | 30 (8.2) | 215 (21.4) | 70 (16.8) | 554 (26.0) | 50 (22.2) |
| Median annual household income, $b | ||||||
| <50 000 | 488 (61.2) | 271 (74.0) | 536 (53.8) | 187 (45.5) | 886 (42.1) | 50 (22.7) |
| 50 000-99 000 | 252 (31.6) | 91 (24.9) | 377 (37.8) | 170 (41.4) | 1034 (49.2) | 72 (72.3) |
| 100 000-149 000 | 56 (7.0) | 4 (1.1) | 62 (6.2) | 41 (10.0) | 157 (7.5) | 11 (5.0) |
| ≥150 000 | 1 (0.1) | 0 | 22 (2.2) | 13 (3.2) | 26 (1.2) | 0 |
| Travel distance, mean (SD), km | 7.9 (4.7) | 11.9 (3.1) | 7.9 (4.0) | 18.2 (8.4) | 4.3 (2.9) | 11.3 (2.9) |
a
Low access was defined as travel distance more than 8.0 km, based on definitions developed by Crandall and colleagues.5
b
Income data were not available for a small number of census tracts in Chicago (n = 1), Los Angeles (n = 5), and New York City (n = 5).