Table 3 Trends in neighborhood characteristics according to participants’ perceived safety during daytime walking, including ratios and Spearman’s correlations
|  | Feel unsafe walking [1] | Neutral [2] | Feel safe walking [3] | Total | Spearman’s rho | Spearman’s p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Area deprivation, mean | 9.6 | 9.5 | 9.4 | 9.5 | − 0.148 | 0.246 |
Blighted lots, mean | 22.4 | 18.5 | 15.6 | 18.6 | − 0.288 | 0.022 |
Blighted structures, mean | 18.1 | 17.8 | 17.7 | 17.9 | − 0.042 | 0.746 |
Crime indexa, mean | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 3.2 | − 0.050 | 0.700 |
Park area in m2, mean | 696.6 | 198.8 | 265.9 | 421.8 | − 0.135 | 0.295 |