Food access and food insecurity are connected to levels of income, race, ethnicity, and geography. The higher a household’s income, typically there is higher access to healthy food. The whiter a neighborhood, regardless of income, the more access to healthy food a household has. Through a multi-pronged approach using transection, GIS data collection, food option profiling, and a geographic food desert survey, I address the questions of how the urban/rural food deserts act differently across race, ethnicity, income, and physical access and if where a person life determines their access to healthy food options. Through this research, I expose what food access means for an urban community and a rural community geographically, as well as socio-economically.
