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Table 1 The population-weighted distances to parks (miles) by urban-rural continuum, race/ethnicity and census block group poverty status in 2008.

From: Modeling spatial accessibility to parks: a national study

Geography

Poverty

ALL

White

Black

Asian

Other

Hispanic

US

ALL

6.7

7.6

5.8

2.5

11.4

4.4

US

LOW

5.9

6.5

5.1

2.4

6.5

4.0

US

MEDIUM

8.9

11.0

7.2

2.8

12.2

4.9

US

HIGH

6.9

9.3

5.5

2.7

22.0

4.6

Large central metro

ALL

1.2

1.3

1.0

1.0

1.2

1.1

large fringe metro

ALL

3.0

3.2

2.4

1.6

2.8

2.3

Medium metro

ALL

6.8

6.9

7.8

3.6

6.5

6.1

Small metro

ALL

14.5

14.3

16.0

13.0

19.3

13.5

Micropolitan

ALL

15.0

14.2

18.3

15.4

19.7

18.4

Noncore

ALL

22.2

20.7

23.5

37.2

46.4

24.2

Large central metro

LOW

1.3

1.4

1.3

1.0

1.3

1.3

Large central metro

MEDIUM

1.1

1.2

1.0

1.0

1.1

1.1

Large central metro

HIGH

0.9

1.0

0.8

0.8

1.0

0.9

large fringe metro

LOW

2.9

3.1

2.4

1.7

2.7

2.4

large fringe metro

MEDIUM

3.7

4.5

2.7

1.6

3.2

2.6

large fringe metro

HIGH

2.4

3.2

2.2

1.2

3.0

1.9

Medium metro

LOW

6.5

6.7

7.7

3.7

5.9

5.2

Medium metro

MEDIUM

7.9

8.4

9.1

3.9

7.5

6.0

Medium metro

HIGH

6.6

6.2

6.9

3.1

7.0

7.1

Small metro

LOW

14.0

13.9

15.7

12.8

16.0

14.0

Small metro

MEDIUM

15.4

15.3

17.0

13.0

19.0

14.4

Small metro

HIGH

14.6

14.5

15.4

13.4

25.8

12.1

Micropolitan

LOW

14.1

13.8

16.6

15.3

16.1

16.0

Micropolitan

MEDIUM

15.8

14.9

19.4

15.2

18.8

18.3

Micropolitan

HIGH

17.1

14.3

18.7

15.8

26.8

21.5

Noncore

LOW

19.7

19.2

21.6

48.0

26.9

22.4

Noncore

MEDIUM

22.2

21.6

23.6

28.7

34.0

22.9

Noncore

HIGH

28.2

23.0

24.4

23.9

65.3

28.8