food_deserts: South Carolina Food Deserts
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The dataset of census tracts deemed to be food deserts by the USDA. Food deserts are areas deemed to be both low-income and low-access in terms of accessibility to a supermarket store. Although communities may have access to convenience stores and independent grocers, the supply in these stores if often unreliable and does not necessarily provide access to healthy, affordable food. The USDA has three different determinations for "low-access": 1 mile (urban)/10 miles (rural) from the closest supermarket, half a mile (urban)/10 miles from the closest supermarket, and 1 mile (urban)/20 miles (rural) from the closest supermarket. The processed dataset includes the census tract GEOID, three different determinations of food desert status based on the levels of access, poverty rate, and median family income. The dataset is categorized as an Economic Stability Determinant of Health.

1	food_deserts

A data frame with 1091 rows and 10 columns

census_tract: Census tract
lila_tracts_1and10: Low income and low access census tracts, with low access meaning that the distance to a supermarket is greater than 1 mile for urban areas or 10 miles for rural areas
lila_tracts_half_and10: Low income and low access census tract, with low access meaning that the distance to a supermarket is greater than 1/2 mile for urban areas or 10 miles for rural areas
lila_tracts_1and20: Low income and low access census tract, with low access meaning that the distance to a supermarket is greater than 1 mile for urban areas or 20 miles for rural areas
low_income_tracts: Low income census tract, meaning that the median household income for the tract is below the Housing and Community Development's low-income limit
poverty_rate: Tract poverty rate, that is the percentage of households in the census tract whose median household income falls below the poverty threshold
median_family_income: Tract median family income
GEOID: GEOID
tract_latitude: Latitude of the Census Tract Centroid
tract_longitude: Longitude of the Census Tract Centroid