2017 Access Healthful Foods in Rural Missouri

2017·0.48 MB·English

by  Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Office of Primary Care and Rural Health

Access to Healthful Foods
In Rural Missouri
1
6% 364,000 1
of Missourians do Do not live within close
not have access to proximity to a grocery
healthful foods store
Number of People in Missouri
Who Lack Access to Healthful! Foods:
Pe rc,ent 0 1f P,o,pu lta.ti o,n
1
per Co,unty:
223 553
181 324
982 D o%
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This map depicts the total number of individuals in, and the percentage
of, the population who are low income and do not live close to a grocery
store.
In 2016, Missouri had 96,800 290
2,3
4
operational farms.
Locations across
Missouri sell local
farm fresh produce
Farmers Markets and Sm1aU Farms
that SeU Fresh Produce by County:
2
Local Farms and
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1 2 Farmers Markets are a
0 2 1
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0
0 fresh fruits and
3
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vegetables while
1
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economy.
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1 University of Wisconsin Population Health Insitute. "Health Rankings." County Health Rankings & Roadmaps. 2017. Accessed May 26, 2017.
http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/missouri/2016/measure/factors/83/data.
2 Missouri Department of Agriculture. "Farmers Markets." AgriMissouri. N.p., 2017. Web. 26 May 2017.
3 University of Missouri. "Missouri Farmers' Market Directory." Farmers' Market Directory. N.p., 2010. Web. 26 May 2017.
4 USDA/NSS. USDA/NASS 2016 State Agriculture Overview for Missouri. N.p., 2017. Web. 26 May 2017.