Where in Surrey are people far from a grocery store?
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About 71,400 Surrey residents live in 15 census tracts whose centre is more than 2 km from the nearest supermarket. Newton has the most of them (about 25,900 people), followed by South Surrey (about 19,400).
| Tract | Community | Population | Nearest store |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0180.03 | South Surrey | 8,884 | 4.07 km |
| 0188.06 | Guildford | 1,484 | 4.05 km |
| 0182.06 | Guildford | 1,168 | 3.67 km |
| 0182.01 | South Surrey | 5,196 | 3.42 km |
| 0182.05 | Cloverdale | 7,395 | 2.96 km |
| 0182.03 | Newton | 3,963 | 2.61 km |
| 0188.05 | Guildford | 2,724 | 2.42 km |
| 0185.08 | Newton | 1,483 | 2.32 km |
| 0184.06 | Newton | 10,901 | 2.17 km |
| 0184.15 | Whalley | 3,364 | 2.15 km |
Of Surrey's 95 populated tracts (517,887 people), 54 are within 1 km of a store, 26 are 1–2 km away and 15 are more than 2 km away. Tract 0192.00 in Whalley is 2.08 km from a store and has the highest low-income rate of the 15, at 25%.
How this was worked out
- We used 96 supermarkets and grocery stores from OpenStreetMap.
- Census tract populations and low-income rates come from the City of Surrey equity dataset (2016 Census). Communities are the City's official community boundaries.
- Distances are straight lines from each tract's centre to the nearest store.
Limitation: real walking or driving routes are longer than straight lines, and populations are from 2016.
What it did
- Found data for neighbourhoods
- Found data for census tract
- Found data for boundaries
- Found data for communities