Mapping Food Deserts

Mapping Food Deserts

Multiple Choice

When there is overabundance of "unhealthy food retailers," you live in a:

• Food Swamp.

• Food Desert.

Multiple Choice

Is this a picture of an urban or rural place?

• urban

• rural

Type of Food Stores

A big-box retailer is a retail store that occupies an enormous amount of physical space and offers a variety of products to its customers. These stores achieve economies of scale by focusing on large sales volumes. ... Walmart, Home Depot, and Ikea are examples of big-box retailers.

Full service retail stores employs qualified, customer-friendly and informative sales force along with a wide range of desired goods at highly reasonable retail prices.

Grocery store as "a store that sells food and household supplies

Analyze the data on the two maps, on the next slide enter your observations.

Multiple Select

True of False:

Most Big Box stores are located where there are more than 5,000 people living.

• False

• True

Multiple Select

Which statements are true based on the information from the previous slide?

• Populations the live farthest from stores have vehicles in the Bronx and Manhattan.

• Higher rates of vehicle ownership is linked to higher income in the Bronx and Manhattan.

• The areas making less than $42K have very low vehicle ownership.

• Yes, all true statements based on the maps of the Bronx and Manhattan.

• NO, not all true statements based on the maps of the Bronx and Manhattan.

Multiple Choice

In a food desert, people do not have easy ______ to healthy foods.

• access

• whole foods

• cars

• nutritious

Poll

True or False:

The households with the lowest median income is making less than $50K

• FALSE

• TRUE

Multiple Select

Critical thinking check all that apply:

The zip codes with the lowest median income in the Bronx are making less than half the median income in that area. Most likely these low income households ...

• lack personal transportation to travel to locations with fresh food.

• can't afford the fresh food in their neighborhoods.

• have many fast food restaurants closer to their homes providing cheap unhealthy food alternatives.

Open Ended

Write in your answer:

The most affluent neighborhoods in Manhattan's lowest median incomes are more than 3 times the lowest median income of the households in the Bronx. What is the lowest median income?

Analyze 2nd lowest median income in the Bronx less than $0-50,925K

Open Ended

Add some observations about the stores and the Bronx neighborhood

Analyze 2nd highest median income in Manhattan $121,099-174,955K

Open Ended

Add some observations about the stores and the Manhattan neighborhood

Multiple Select

What are TWO truths about food deserts?

Food deserts...

• do not have many grocery stores

• do not have a lot of people in them

• do not have a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables

• have a lot of sand