Availability of Medical and Recreational Marijuana Stores and Neighborhood Characteristics in Colorado

Table 1

Neighborhood characteristics by type of marijuana stores in Colorado (census tract ,249).

Census tract characteristics	All census tracts	Census tracts without any marijuana stores	Census tracts with marijuana stores			Test for difference between tracts with and without any type of marijuana stores; ( value)
			Any type of marijuana stores	Medical marijuana stores	Recreational marijuana stores
Number of census tracts, (%)	1,249 (100)	960 (76.86)	289 (23.14)	242 (19.38)	193 (15.45)
Population size, thousand	4.03	3.99	4.19	4.18	4.11	0.10
Land area, hundred square miles	0.83	0.82	0.87	0.64	1.08	0.81
Proportion of population age <21	0.28	0.28	0.25	0.25	0.25	<0.001
Proportion of racial and ethnic minority; (not Non-Hispanic White)	0.30	0.28	0.35	0.34	0.36	<0.001
Median household income, tens of thousands $	6.19	6.49	5.18	5.18	5.31	<0.001
Unemployment rate	0.067	0.065	0.073	0.072	0.069	0.0026
Schools, density/sq mile	1.20	1.12	1.49	1.61	1.57	0.0011
Crime index	100.84	92.57	128.33	130.71	128.20	<0.001
Alcohol on-premise outlets, density/sq mile	4.47	2.76	10.16	11.32	12.57	<0.001
Alcohol off-premise outlets, density/sq mile	1.82	1.46	3.04	3.20	2.92	<0.001

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