USDA Food Environment Atlas Data for Colorado Census Tracts

This dataset represents food environment indicators and risk assessment for all Colorado census tracts and was published by the USDA Economic Research Service in 2017, although the data used in this assessment represents 2010-2015. These data help to ascertain community-level: Accessibility to sources of healthy food, as measured by distance to a store or by the number of stores in an area. Resources that may affect accessibility, such as family income or vehicle availability. Indicators of resources, such as the average income of the neighborhood and the availability of public transportation. This dataset presents a spatial overview of food access indicators for low-income and other census tracts using different measures of supermarket accessibility, provides food access data for populations within census tracts; and offers census-tract-level data on food access that can be downloaded for community planning or research purposes. Further documentation on the assembly of these data can be found here.