Note: On Wednesday, June 10, 2026, ERS will perform scheduled maintenance on its ArcGIS Enterprise applications. During this time, servers will be restarted multiple times, which may cause intermittent outages in the REST services that provide data to the ERS atlases. Users may experience slowness or temporary disruptions.
Food environment factors—such as store and restaurant proximity, availability of local foods, food and nutrition assistance programs, and community characteristics—interact to influence food choices and diet quality.
The objectives of the Food Environment Atlas are:
- to provide a spatial overview of a community's ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so, and
- to assemble statistics on food environment indicators to stimulate research on the determinants of food choices and diet quality.
The Atlas can be used to:
- Create maps showing the variation in a single indicator across the United States; for example, number of farmers' markets or access to grocery stores across U.S. counties and county-equivalents;
- View all of the county-level indicators for a selected county or county equivalent;
- Zoom in to specific areas and export or print maps;
- Download the full dataset or selected data in Excel and machine-readable formats.
View our data training webinar on how to use the updated Food Environment Atlas.