Table 1.

Individual and Neighborhood-Level Descriptive Statistics of the Study Sample

	Overall		White		African American		P- Value
	% or mean (95% CI)		% or mean (95% CI)		% or mean (95% CI)
Mental Health
Mean anxiety symptoms (range 0 – 21)	2.55	(2.25–2.84)	2.10	(1.75 – 2.46)	2.98	(2.51–3.46)	<0.001
Mean Depressive symptoms (range 0–27)	1.68	(1.43–1.94)	1.25	(1.01–1.49)	2.11	(1.66–2.55)	0.004
Sociodemographic Characteristics
Race (non-Hispanic white, ref)
Non-Hispanic African American, %	50.23		-		-
Mean age (range 20–72)	41.41	(40.33–42.50)	40.49	(39.02–41.97)	42.33	(40.74–43.91)	0.096
Gender (male, ref)
Female, %	50.00		49.77		50.23		0.924
Marital Status (not married, ref)
Married /Living with partner, %	50.23		55.73		42.93		0.008
Mean household residents (range 1–5)	2.71	(2.58–2.84)	2.83	(2.64–3.03)	2.59	(2.41–2.77)	0.074
Socioeconomic Status
Education Level (Some college/college degree, ref)
No college education, %	33.78		25.79		41.70		<0.001
Poverty level (<300% FPL, ref)
300%+ FPL, %	12.16		18.55		5.83		<0.001
Employment Status (Currently employed, ref)
Not currently employed, %	50.23		41.05		66.67		<0.001
Living situation (rent or live with friend/family, ref)
Homeowner, %	25.45		33.94		17.04		<0.001
Mean years at current address (range 0 – 37)	4.88	(4.29–5.46)	4.93	(4.13–5.73)	4.82	(3.97–5.67)	0.851
Discrimination and Neighborhood Experiences
Mean discrimination experiences (range 0 –25)	5.94	(5.48–6.40)	5.13	(4.58–5.68)	6.74	(6.03–7.46)	<0.001
Mean neighborhood problems (range 0–2)	0.45	(0.41–0.49)	0.36	(0.31–0.40)	0.55	(0.49–0.61)	<0.001
Mean neighborhood social cohesion/trust (range 0–4)	2.39	(2.30–2.47)	2.54	(2.42–2.66)	2.24	(2.11–2.36)	<0.001
Neighborhood Characteristics (level-2)a
Mean neighborhood disadvantage (range 0–22)	7.12	(6.73–7.51)	5.12	(4.70–5.55)	9.10	(8.55–9.65)	<0.001
Mean % African American (range 0–100)	34.15	(30.98–37.33)	11.86	(9.75–13.96)	56.25	(51.92–60.58)	<0.001
Mean population density (per sq. mile)	3,035.44	(2857.80–3213.09)	2,474.51	(2223.31–2725.70)	3,591.35	(3360.60–3822.09)	<0.001
N	444		223		221

Chi squares or 2-tailed t-tests for significant differences between non-Hispanic Whites and non-Hispanic African Americans

^aIncludes 240 census tracts