Tucson-area 'food deserts'
“Food deserts” in urban areas — represented by the shaded Census tracts on this map of the Tucson area — are low-income areas more than a mile from a grocery, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Rural food deserts may be 10 or more miles away.
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