Association between racial residential segregation and walkability in 745 U.S. cities

Ben R. Spoer; Sarah E. Conderino; Taylor M. Lampe; Rebecca H. Ofrane; Elaine De Leon; Lorna E. Thorpe; Virginia W. Chang; Brian Elbel

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103114

Association between racial residential segregation and walkability in 745 U.S. cities

Ben R. Spoer, Sarah E. Conderino, Taylor M. Lampe, Rebecca H. Ofrane, Elaine De Leon, Lorna E. Thorpe, Virginia W. Chang, Brian Elbel

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Despite higher chronic disease prevalence, minoritized populations live in highly walkable neighborhoods in US cities more frequently than non-minoritized populations. We investigated whether city-level racial residential segregation (RRS) was associated with city-level walkability, stratified by population density, possibly explaining this counterintuitive association. RRS for Black-White and Latino-White segregation in large US cities was calculated using the Index of Dissimilarity (ID), and walkability was measured using WalkScore. Median walkability increased across increasing quartiles of population density, as expected. Higher ID was associated with higher walkability; associations varied in strength across strata of population density. RRS undergirds the observed association between walkability and minoritized populations, especially in higher population density cities.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	103114
Journal	Health and Place
Volume	84
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103114
State	Published - Nov 2023

Keywords

Built environment
Cities
Health disparities
Population density
Segregation
Walkability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Health(social science)
Sociology and Political Science
Life-span and Life-course Studies

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