Jessica KennedyUP 206A GIS

Fall 2010

} Total Grocery Stores

The “most” food insecure population is spread throughout LA County

Next step: Narrow results using poverty statistics to find most vulnerable population by census tracts

•49 Census Tracts

•Most within the city of Los Angeles

•A few outliers

Distance – 7,8 Original Data – 2,5,6,7,8 Chart/ Image – 2,4,6 Hotspot Analysis – 8,9 Inset Map – 3,5,6,9,10,11 Aggregating – 4,10 Attribute sub-sets selections – 2,4,6 Geocoding – 2,5,6,7,8 Geoprocessing – All Index - 10 Metadata and Model - 13

Azab. “New tool maps and grades ‘food deserts’ to lure supermarkets.” 2010. http://www.grist.org/article/food-2010-10-21-new-tool-maps-food-deserts-to-entice-supermarkets

California Food Policy Advocates. “Los Angeles County: A Profile of Poverty, Hunger & Food Assistance.” 2002 http://www.cfpa.net/countyprofile/LosAngeles.pdf

California Certified Farmers Markets. http://www.cafarmersmarkets.com/ California Department of Health. http://www.cnngis.org/ (Data) DiSogra, Yen, Flood & Ramirez. “Hunger In Los Angeles County Affects

Over 200,000 Low-Income Adults, Another 560,000 At Risk” http://www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu/pubs/Publication.aspx?pubID=92#download

LA Community Garden Council. http://www.lagardencouncil.org/ (Data)

Market makeovers. http://www.marketmakeovers.org/why/market-makeover US Census Data http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

(Data) Schwartz &Wilson “Who Can Afford To Live in a Home?” US Census

Bureau, 2006. Simply Maps. http://simplymap.com/main.php (Data)