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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2021 Feb 11;195:110862. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.110862

Table 1.

Distributions of environmental justice metrics for the two CAFO exposure metrics

Rank category based on # of CAFOs within ZIP code % Non-Hispanic White % Non-Hispanic Black % Hispanic % Below Poverty Median household income ($) Education (% <High School) Racial Residential Isolation for Non-Hispanic Black Educational Residential Isolation for population without college degree
Quartiles of ZIP codes (excluding those with 0 CAFO) Count method
0 (No CAFOs exposure) 74.18 15.77 5.98 15.19 47112.84 29.94 0.16 0.73
1 (Lowest quartile) 66.29 23.39 6.30 17.64 42316.65 33.56 0.23 0.80
2 66.15 24.96 5.37 16.78 42468.27 34.56 0.24 0.81
3 61.56 26.61 6.62 18.85 39727.86 34.41 0.26 0.83
4 (Highest quartile) 62.30 23.65 10.88 19.38 38590.27 34.74 0.24 0.85
Quartiles of ZIP codes (excluding those with 0 CAFO) Buffer method
0 (No CAFOs exposure) 81.20 9.46 5.51 15.52 45634.60 27.94 0.10 0.71
1 (Lowest quartile) 75.02 15.48 5.67 13.67 50772.02 28.75 0.16 0.70
2 73.14 17.37 5.93 15.41 47027.56 31.19 0.18 0.75
3 64.57 24.91 6.31 17.43 41855.34 34.69 0.24 0.81
4 (Highest quartile) 60.13 26.42 8.70 18.99 39421.47 34.48 0.27 0.84

Note: Values represent average number in each category.