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Table 2 Main characteristics of the five clusters, GeoClasH, Mainland France

From: Beyond the map: evidencing the spatial dimension of health inequalities

Characteristics, mean (SD)

Wealthy Metropolitan Areas (WMA)

Precarious Population Districts (PPD)

Residential Outskirts (RO)

Agricultural and Industrial Plains (AIP)

Rural Margins (RM)

France

Population density (pop/km2)

813 (2793)

701 (1496)

77 (74)

43 (36)

19 (21)

178 (973)

Exposure to NO2 (µg/m3)

17.0 (6.0)

14.2 (5.4)

10.9 (2.8)

9.5 (2.3)

6.5 (2.2)

10.3 (4.4)

Exposure to PM (µg/m3)

19.4 (1.9)

18.6 (1.7)

18.2 (1.2)

18.0 (1.2)

17.1 (0.9)

18.0 (1.4)

Share of the area occupied by crops using pesticides (%)

34.0 (28.4)

23.3 (22.9)

45.7 (29.5)

52.0 (26.0)

10.0 (15.5)

35.6 (30.0)

Unemployment rate (%)

6.2 (1.7)

11.2 (2.9)

6.3 (1.9)

8.8 (2.6)

8.5 (3.3)

8.0 (3.0)

Annual income per household (€)

26,050 (3372)

19,162 (1750)

21,733 (1794)

19,270 (1376)

18,543 (1722)

20,335 (2808)

Labourers-employees (%)

38.4 (8.6)

59.1 (7.5)

50.0 (9.0)

63.2 (8.5)

52.5 (10.8)

54.4 (11.7)

Unattached individuals (%)

11.7 (4.3)

18.2 (5.1)

11.1 (3.0)

13.7 (3.5)

18.5 (4.7)

14.4 (5.3)

People without higher education diploma (%)

63.0 (8.1)

79.9 (5.8)

74.7 (5.3)

83.4 (4.3)

80.2 (6.2)

78.1 (7.9)

Journey time to hospital (min)

18.5 (8.5)

16.5 (10.4)

21.6 (8.3)

22.4 (8.2)

33.5 (14.2)

23.9 (11.7)

APL score to general practitioners

57.7 (22.9)

84.4 (33.4)

45.7 (26.2)

41.7 (24.7)

31.5 (31.9)

46.1 (31.6)

Number of municipalities

2920

3742

10159

10330

8647

35798

Overall population

14,435,670

32,023,919

8,717,397

5,902,766

2,948,094

64,027,846

  1. SD: Standard deviation, NO2: Nitrogen dioxide, PM: particulate matter, APL: localized potential accessibility