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An Equity Profile of Orange County
Less than 5%
5% to 10%
10%
to 20%
20% to 40%
40%
or more
Pockets of low food access for low-income communities
exist throughout the county
Low-income low food access tracts are dispersed throughout the county
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68. Percent of Population with Low-Income and Low Food Access by Census Tract, 2015
Sources: USDA Food Access Research Atlas, 2015; ESRI, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS user community.
Food access is important to ensure proper
nutrition for families. Nutrition is connected
to many positive outcomes including
attentiveness in schools and overall health.
Low access to healthy food is defined as being
far from a supermarket. "Far" is defined as
more than half a mile for urban centers and
more than 10 miles for rural areas. The map
to the right highlights the share of each
census tract's population that has low-income
and low food access.
The top ten census tracts with the largest
share of people who are low-income and who
are not near a supermarket (between 58
percent and 78 percent of the population) are
in Anaheim, Placentia, Tustin, Santa Ana, and
Fullerton.
