Variable statistics | Hot spot county* (n=46) | Cold spot county* (n=37) | P value |
Population | 7403 (3470–15 300) | 36 640 (14670, 65845) | <0.001 |
Incidence rate | 26 (17–49) | 12 (9–19) | <0.001 |
Low access to store—Hispanic senior (%) | 6.8 (3–13) | 1.7 (0.7–3.5) | <0.001 |
FFR-AE (%) | 0.7 (0.5–1) | 0.5 (0.4–0.6) | 0.008 |
FSR-AE (%) | 0.8 (0.5–0.9) | 0.5 (0.4–0.6) | <0.001 |
College education (%) | 49.5 (41–59) | 46 (43–54) | 0.38 |
Social association rate (per 10,000) | 16.7 (13–22) | 11.8 (10–14) | <0.001 |
Severe housing problem (%) | 11.5 (10–14) | 14 (13–16) | <0.001 |
Unemployed (%) | 4.3 (3.7–4.7) | 5.3 (5–6.5) | <0.001 |
African American (%) | 3 (1–5) | 14 (8–18) | <0.001 |
Hispanic (%) | 27.7 (18–39) | 12.7 (8–19) | <0.001 |
Uninsured (%) | 22 (20–24) | 21.6 (20–24) | 0.67 |
High-school education (%) | 95 (92–99) | 93 (91–96) | 0.08 |
Asian (%) | 0.6 (0.4–0.7) | 0.7 (0.6–1) | 0.01 |
White (%) | 62.7 (52–76) | 68 (61–79) | 0.24 |
Rural (%) | 54 (26–100) | 67 (51–78) | 0.61 |
Low access to store—senior non-Hispanic (%) | 0.1 (0–0.2) | 0.1 (0–0.1) | 0.63 |
Household medium income ($) | 43 290 (40500–48750) | 43 000 (40770–46700) | 0.4 |
*Estimate and statistics—median (IQR) and p value from Wilcoxon test.
FFR-AE, per cent of fast-food restaurants availability and expenditures per 1000 population; FSR-AE, per cent of full-service restaurants availability and expenditures per 1000 population.