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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2019 Aug 1;57(3):338–345. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2019.04.023

Table 1.

Mean Number of Fast Food Restaurants and Percentage of Schools by School Majority Racial/Ethnica Student Enrollment, Urbanicity,b and Neighborhood Income Tertilesc

Urban neighborhood income tertiles (n=3,130) Non-urban neighborhood income tertiles (n=4,336)
Measure Lowest (x¯=$28,988) Middle (x¯=$46,803) Highest (x¯=$72,510) Lowest (x¯=$30,770) Middle (x¯=$46,932) Highest (x¯=$79,402) Overall
FFR availability, Mean (Standard Deviation)
 2000 4.42 (4.30) 3.45(3.11) 2.75 (2.92) 1.4 (2.43) 1.46 (2.28) 1.20 (2.01) 2.23 (3.06)
 2010 4.55 (4.74) 3.80 (3.42) 3.06 (3.19) 1.61 (2.54) 1.44 (2.30) 1.23 (2.12) 2.36 (3.21)
Schools by majority race/ethnicity of student body,a % (n)
 African American 4.9 (54) 3.4 (38) 1.5 (14) 0.3 (4) 0.1 (1) 0.5 (8) 1.6 (119)
 Asian 1.2 (13) 1.9 (21) 5.9 (54) 0.0 (0) 0.0 (0) 2.5 (40) 1.7 (128)
 Latino 71.0 (777) 55.8 (623) 16.1 (148) 38.4 (537) 25.0 (342) 8.5 (133) 34.3 (2,560)
 No majority 19.2 (210) 28.0 (313) 40.8 (375) 13.3 (186) 19.1 (262) 19.0 (298) 22.0 (1,644)
 White 3.7 (41) 10.7 (120) 35.1 (322) 46.6 (652) 55.4 (759) 69.4 (1,089) 40.0 (2,983)
Total 14.7 (1,095) 15.0 (1,117) 12.3 (918) 18.7 (1,398) 18.3 (1,369) 21.0 (1,569) 100.0 (7,466)
a

>50% of the student body (based on data from the California Department of Education, 2010; www.cde.ca.gov/ds).34

b

Urban or non-urban (rural, suburban, second city) households in the census tract (based on data from Nielsen PRIZM urbanization measures, 2013).38

c

Median household income tertiles (based on Census 2000).3637

FFR, fast food restaurants.