Fig. 1
From: County-level associations between food retailer availability and violent crime rate
Distribution of the CDC’s Modified Food Retail Environment Index by U.S. County in 2014. The data presented in this map are from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Environment Atlas. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Modified Food Retail Environment Index represent the proportion of food retailers in the county that are healthy retailers (e.g., grocery stores, supermarkets, supercenters, farmer’s markets). A larger index score out of 100 suggests a healthier retail food environment. Categories represent quartiles for the index score