A supermarket and town homes are part of a major building project that will soon rise along parcel of land bounded by State and Albany streets in Hamilton Hill.

This pattern, known as supermarket redlining, involves large grocery chains avoiding or pulling out of low-income, predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods. Specifically, between 1968 and ...

According to the USDA, a food desert occurs when more than 33% of the population in urban spaces is further than one mile from a supermarket. In a rural setting, 33% of people must be more than 10 ...

What is a food desert? An urban food desert is a high-poverty census block more than one mile from a large retail food establishment, according to Summit County Public Health.

No longer a food desert: Hebron gets supermarket after nearly a decade Joseph S. Pete Jul 20, 2025 0 Loaded 0% - ...

Food can be cheap. Food can be healthy. But too often, some advocates say, it can’t be both at the same time — and if it is, ...

If you live in an area where fresh, nutritious groceries are hard to find, you're not alone. According to a 2025 U.S. Department of Agriculture report, between 17.1 million and 53.

And that's unfortunate, because where there are food deserts, there are almost always banking, child care, health care and every other type of desert, too. Public options could be a potent force ...

Food & Drink Nearly 19 million people in the US live in a food desert: Here’s what that means By Hadley Mendelsohn for Hers Stacker Updated June 26, 2025 1:18 PM ...

Nearly 19 million people in the US live in a food desert: Here’s what that means We talk a lot about eating healthier — more greens, less sugar, fewer processed foods. But what if access to ...

Here’s how that breaks down: Low-income means a poverty rate of 20% or more or a median family income at or below 80% of the area’s average. Low-access means at least 500 people or at least 33 ...