Minnesota is rife with urban, rural and suburban food deserts, defined by the U.S. Healthy Food Financing Initiative as low-income areas where residents have limited access to supermarkets, often because of transportation and financial issues. According to the Initiative’s data, sections of North, Northeast and South Minneapolis and East St. Paul (as well as suburbs like Coon Rapids and Bloomington) number among the Twin Cities’ urban food deserts, with percentages of low-income residents with low access to grocery stores as high as 49 percent in some regions. Read what’s being done to address this issue in Dana Raidt’s story, Equal Access, here. Map by Adam Marks.
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Minnesota is rife with urban, rural and suburban food deserts, defined by the U.S. Healthy Food Financing Initiative as low-income areas where residents have limited access to supermarkets, often because of transportation and financial issues. According to the Initiative’s data, sections of North, Northeast and South Minneapolis and East St. Paul (as well as suburbs like Coon Rapids and Bloomington) number among the Twin Cities’ urban food deserts, with percentages of low-income residents with low access to grocery stores as high as 49 percent in some regions.

Read what’s being done to address this issue in Dana Raidt’s story, Equal Access, here.

Map by Adam Marks.