Sentences with phrase «u.s. census tracts»

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines a food desert as a «low income census tract where a substantial number of residents have low access to a grocery store.»

Using 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Census information, John Iceland and D. H. Weinberg in 2002 constructed dissimilarity indexes of residential segregation by census tract in 220 metropolitan areas in which at least 3 percent of the residents were black or which had at least 20,000 black residents in 1980.

Once census tracts were categorized as predominantly black, white, or Hispanic, we used census tract - level median household income from the U.S. Census Bureau alongside the Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI) and Zillow Rent Index (ZRI) to calculate rent and mortgage burdens in census tracts.

Using local estimates of labor force participation by gender and parental status from the U.S. Census Bureau, and weighting the estimates by the population of parents in each census tract, this analysis compares parental labor force participation between child care deserts and nondeserts.