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Food Deserts in Nebraska

LegendUrban Census TractsPopulation living >1 mile from grocery store

0 - 499500 - 1738

Rural Census TractsPopulation living >10 miles from grocery store

0 - 499500 - 1184 Lincoln DO U G LA S

SA R P YSA U ND E R S

W AS HI N GT O NDO DG E

Omaha Metro Area

Map Created by Casey DunnSources: U.S. Census

(Federal Register vol. 76, no. 164), USDA (Food Access Research Atlas)

34 March 2015

¯0 70 14035 Miles

1:2,000,000

0 3 6 9 121.5Miles

0 3 6 9 121.5Miles

The U.S. Census Bureau classifies a tract as "urban" if the tract has a population of at least 2,500, with less than 1,500residing in an insitutional group home, and one-third of the land within the tract is developed.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Department of the Treasury, and Department of Health and Human Servicesdefine a as a census tract where at least 500 people live in low-income areas and have limited accessto a grocery store or healthy, affordable food retail outlet (USDA website).

food desert