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Table 2 Built Environment Features: Descriptive Statistics and Spatial Autocorrelation

From: Racial differences in the built environment—body mass index relationship? A geospatial analysis of adolescents in urban neighborhoods

 

400-meter Network Buffer Neighborhood

800-meter Network Buffer Neighborhood

Mean (SD)

Range

Moran’s Ia

Mean (SD)

Range

Moran’s Ia

Access to Walking Destinations

      

Recreational open space (density)

4.71 (4.27)

0 - 21.11

0.79

3.71 (2.66)

0 - 16.42

0.88

Parks (density)

2.85 (2.83)

0 - 17.24

0.70

2.10 (1.32)

0 - 8.21

0.79

Bus stops (density)

25.81 (13.07)

0 - 63.36

0.66

25.37 (8.02)

0 - 47.56

0.83

Subway stops (density)

0.57 (1.64)

0 - 14.84

0.59

0.60 (1.30)

0 - 11.43

0.88

Retail destinations (density)

18.97 (21.27)

0 - 230.70

0.74

18.24 (15.02)

0 - 159.10

0.83

Service destinations (density)

1.64 (3.68)

0 - 42.32

0.63

2.01 (4.06)

0 - 71.45

0.67

Cultural/educational destinations (density)

14.48 (12.90)

0 - 154.30

0.77

15.33 (11.67)

0 - 128.60

0.90

Community Design

      

Median pedestrian route directness

1.14 (0.16)

1.00 - 2.73

0.15

1.18 (0.15)

1.00 - 3.12

0.38

Intersection density

113.21 (33.96)

23.86 - 305.90

0.86

105.43 (26.60)

48.41 - 262.80

0.94

Sidewalk completeness

85.31 (12.08)

10.47 - 100.00

0.68

84.11 (10.23)

17.62 - 99.47

0.83

Average sidewalk width (meters)

1.84 (0.33)

0.20 - 2.70

0.77

1.81 (0.28)

0.30 - 2.43

0.88

Average speed limit (mph)

28.00 (1.71)

24.78 - 39.40

0.76

27.82 (1.19)

25.00 - 35.34

0.89

Highway density

0.55 (2.42)

0 - 26.48

0.69

0.65 (2.08)

0 - 16.59

0.84

Residential density

375.45 (210.87)

52.76 - 1488.00

0.93

353.15 (172.45)

59.48 - 1194.00

0.96

  1. a The pseudo p value for the Global Moran's I are all 0.001.
  2. Note: All density measures are expressed as per square kilometer.