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USDA Offers Online Food Desert Locator (USDA Economic Research Service, May 2011)

A new USDA website features census-tract level data on food deserts across the U.S. Food deserts are low-income communities without ready access to affordable and healthy foods.

A new USDA website features census-tract level data on food deserts across the U.S. Food deserts are low-income communities without ready access to affordable and healthy foods.  The locator provides a spatial view of the location of food desert census tracts, provides selected population characteristics of the tracts, and offers downloadable data on food deserts.

Related information on food insecurity can be found on our website.