USDA Report Rates 40 Percent Of Vanderburgh County As A Food Desert

There aren’t enough grocery stores in some parts of southern Indiana. A new report from the USDA says 40 percent of Vanderburgh county qualifies as a food desert. The report says many people in rural parts of the county are 10 miles from the nearest grocery store. The USDA rates a community as a food desert if there’s not a grocery store within one mile. Feed Evansville’s Lisa Vaughan says the problem is getting people who live in the county access to grocery stores, not necessarily building new stores in the rural parts of the county.