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Within low-income communities in the US, there is reduced access to environments that promote physical activity including parks, recreational facilities, and gyms. [20] Only about one in five homes in low-income areas have parks within a half-mile distance, and about the same number have a fitness or recreation center within that distance. [21]
County Per capita income Median household income Median family income Population Number of households 1 Collin: $42,220 $83,889 $84,306 782,341 181,970 2 Borden: $40,916 $58,409 $60,536 641 264 3 King: $39,511 $61,563 $80,500 286 113 4 Loving: $37,362 $80,504 $94,785 134 31 5 Kendall: $36,418 $66,655 $80,801 33,410 12,617 6 Rockwall: $33,274 ...
Often, poverty-areas do not have places to walk or get healthy food nearby, and they are bombarded with unhealthy promotions like cigarettes, alcohol, and fast food. [17] High-poverty areas also had higher death rates than low-poverty areas. [16] [18] The cost of housing is a huge detriment to physical health.
Texas also has a lower median household income compared to the national median. In Texas, the median household income between 2017 and 2021 was $67,321, and $74,580 nationwide in 2022.
According to the USDA's most recent report on food access, as of 2017, approximately 39.5 million people - 12.9% of the US population - lived in low-income and low food access. In urban areas, higher levels of poverty have been associated with lower access to supermarkets. [2]
Two common measurements of the average annual income of individuals in the United States are: per capita income (PCI) and per capita personal income (PCPI). Per capita personal income is the more comprehensive of the two measures, and thus PCPI for an individual, county, or state will be higher than PCI.
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DFW added 152,598 residents between July 2022 and July 2023. The Metroplex’s population has ballooned by around 434,000 since 2020. The change is roughly equivalent to the entire city of Oakland ...