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Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2019 Oct 21;179(Pt B):108844. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.108844

Table 3.

Neighborhood characteristics of the St. Louis Metropolitan Area (n = 615 census tracts)

	Mean	5^th Percentile	25^th Percentile	50^th Percentile	75^th Percentile	95^th Percentile
% Non-white	26.72	1.10	3.90	10.70	36.90	98.50
% African American	22.30	0.00	0.80	5.00	29.80	97.10
% Hispanic	2.39	0.00	0.60	1.70	3.30	6.40
% Without high school education	12.88	2.40	6.50	10.90	16.80	29.80
Per capita income per $10,000	27.40	12.34	20.68	25.77	31.61	48.19
Median household income per $10,000	55.33	21.48	39.11	52.16	67.63	101.60
% Poverty	13.60	1.20	4.60	9.10	19.30	40.90
% Unemployment	5.69	1.80	3.20	4.70	7.10	13.10
Isolation measures (range 0–1)^*
Racial (Black) Isolation	0.08	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.08	0.43
Economic (below poverty) Isolation	0.15	0.01	0.03	0.07	0.20	0.54

Isolation measures range from 0 to 1, with higher values indicating a greater proportion of that neighborhood’s (or census tract’s) population who are members of the same group.