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Ability to pay for dental care

Poor/fair 35.8% 45.4%

Good 44.5% 50.0% 0.1909

Excellent 19.7% 4.6%

Ability to pay for healthy food choices

Poor/fair 25.4% 31.8%

Good 49.8% 54.6% 0.6562

Excellent 24.8% 13.6%

Everyone have insurance (% yes) 93.0% 95.5% 0.6531

Avoid seeing a doctor in past 12 months 27.1% 22.7% 0.8041
because of cost (% yes)

• There were no differences in rating of aspects of health by race except for access to mental
health care.
• Over 25% of non-white respondents rated their access to mental health care as fair or poor,
compared to 12% of white respondents. Only 29% of non-white respondents indicated the access
to mental health care was good compared to 43% of with respondents indicating this.

• Caution should be taken when examining these results due to the small number of non-white
compared to white respondents.

ASPECTS OF PUBLIC SAFETY White Non-White Difference in rating
740 (97.2%) 21 (2.8%) by race
Quality of law enforcement 0.2341
Poor/fair 18.3% 31.9%
Good 62.7% 54.5% 0.2064
Excellent 19.0% 13.6%
0.0496
Efforts to prevent crime 23.4% 40.9%
Poor/fair 61.2% 50.0% 0.2295
Good 15.4% 9.1%
Excellent 0.1061
8.8% 9.0%
Quality of emergency services 52.6% 45.5%
Poor/fair 38.6% 45.5%
Good
Excellent 10.2% 13.7%
58.0% 72.7%
Safety of neighborhood 31.8% 13.6%
Poor/fair
Good 8.6% 13.6%
Excellent 62.8% 68.2%
28.6% 18.2%
Safety of schools
Poor/fair
Good
Excellent

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