Food Deserts

Food Deserts

Description Exhibit 46 identifies where food deserts are present in the defined ChristianaCare community. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service defines urban food deserts as low-income areas more than one mile from a supermarket or large grocery

Exhibit 46: Locations of Food Deserts, 2019

Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 2019 and Maptitude, 2021. .

store, and rural food deserts as more than 10 miles from a supermarket or large grocery store. Many government-led initiatives aim to increase the availability of nutritious and affordable foods to people living in these areas. Observations

• Census tracts designated as food deserts were in Newark, New Castle, and

Wilmington and within Community 1. • Approximately 14 percent of New Castle County’s population lives in these census tracts.