Community

Assessment: Census
Tract 46.34

Census Tract 46.34

Data Gathering

PimaMaps/Google Maps

ACS Demographic and Housing

Estimates

CrimeReports.com

Windshield Survey

Key Informant Interviews

Community Core
Census Tract:

Pima County:

White: 83.1%

White: 82%

African American: 4.0%

African American: 4.5%

American Indian: 3.1%

Asian: 8.8%
Hispanic or Latino: 14.7%

American Indian: 4.1%

Asian: 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino: 35.0%

Physical Environment
CT Boundaries
North: Tangerine and Camino del Norte
South: Lambert
East: La Cholla
West: Camino de Oeste and Thornydale

Health and Social Services

Economics
Census Tract:
Median household income: $72,368
People living in poverty: 3.7%
Pima County
Median household income: $45,841
People living in poverty: 19.2%

Safety and Transportation

Politics and Government

Communication
Census tract:
English only: 88.2%
Speaks English less
than very well: 1.9%
Spanish primary: 7.4%

Pima County:
English only: 71.5%
Speaks English less
than very well: 6.9%
Spanish primary: 23.5%

Education

Recreation

Strengths

All informants described the

community as friendly, supportive,
and safe.

There are excellent schools located in

and around the census tract.

Multiple businesses, restaurants, and

grocery stores are located just
outside the census tract, and are
easily accessed by community
members.

The community is viewed and

described by informants as active.

Stressors

There is a lack of public

transportation.

Some roads in our census

tract are not county
maintained.

Rapid community growth

and not enough expansion
to keep up.

Nursing Diagnosis

Risk for heart disease among food bank population living in Marana/Oro Valley R/T lack of
education on nutrition and low income AEB increase prevalence of heart disease among low
income populations

Evidence-based Intervention
Provide the food bank with pamphlets that inform their patrons of heart healthy
recipes that can be made using food bank ingredients.

Support for Intervention

Increased consumption of fruit and vegetables for the primary prevention of cardiovascular
diseases (Review) Hartley L, Igbinedion E, Holmes J, Flowers N, Thorogood M, Clarke A, Stranges
S, Hooper L, Rees K
This is a reprint of a Cochrane review, prepared and maintained by The Cochrane
Collaboration and published in The Cochrane Library 2013, Issue 6

Support for Intervention

Healthy People 2020: Determinants of Health

Social environment as a factor that can affect ones health. If an individual does not have the
resources to meet their daily needs, then those needs go unmet.
Healthy People 2020: Applicable Goal

Promote health and reduce chronic disease risk through the consumption of healthful diets
and achievement and maintenance of healthy body weights

Evaluation

Goal: Reduce the risk of heart disease in food bank clients

SMART objectives: 1 month after implementation
Food bank clients will state satisfaction of recipes using a 1-5 scale
50% of the clients will verify use of at least one healthy recipe
Evaluation method: Survey
Which healthy recipe did you use?
Which recipe is your favorite?
How satisfied are you with the recipes on a scale of 1-5?