Measuring Success - Food System
- Use the following resources to determine whether a community
is underserved and monitor progress towards meeting accessibility
and affordability objectives:
- USDA Food Access Research Atlas (https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas.aspx)
This resources allows you to:
- Create maps showing food access indicators by census
tract using different measures and indicators of supermarket
accessibility;
- Compare food access measures based on 2015 data with the
previous 2010 measures;
- View indicators of food access for selected
subpopulations; and
- Download census-tract-level data on food access measures.
- PolicyLink’s Healthy Food Access Portal (https://www.healthyfoodaccess.org/access-101-research-your-community)
- UCLA’s AskCHIS (http://ask.chis.ucla.edu). Online
health query system that allows you to quickly search for health
statistics on your county, region, and state.
- AskCHIS Neighborhood Edition (http://askchisne.ucla.edu)
provides health statistics by ZIP code, city, and legislative
district.
- The following resource contains more resources on different
methodologies for identifying food-insecure areas: Healthy
Food Access Portal. “Defining Underserved Primer.”
https://www.healthyfoodaccess.org/resources-library_page_6
