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Food purchase data reveals the locations of London’s ‘food deserts’

Fig 7

Sociodemographic estimates (left column) and corresponding GWR model contributions C_ik (right column) mapped across London for (a–b) household median income, (c–d) car ownership, (e–f) Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic population, and (g–h) average age.

LSOAs outlined in black denote areas where the LISA cluster is a Hot Spot (food purchases are reflective of ‘food deserts’), and the coefficient for location i and covariate k is statistically significant. Household income; Black, Asian, and minority ethnic population; and car ownership contribute to nutrient deficient purchases in food desert areas. Shapefiles for LSOA boundaries were obtained from the Greater London Authority via the London Datastore: https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/statistical-gis-boundary-files-london. Contains National Statistics data Crown copyright and database right 2015. Contains Ordnance Survey data Crown copyright and database right 2015. Licensed under the UK Open Government Licence v2.0 (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2/).

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcsy.0000072.g007