2022 New Castle County Community Health Needs Assessment

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APPENDIX B – SECONDARY DATA ASSESSMENT

Food Deserts Exhibit 46: Locations of Food Deserts, 2019

Description

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

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 81


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