What's a 20-minute neighborhood?
A place where you live and you only have to walk within that of time from home, at mnost, to get essentials: groceries, pharmacy items, clothes.
It's no shock Detroit has few of these. writes Robin Runyan of Curbed Detroit. Way too few.
Runyan writes:
The JP Morgan Chase Institute looked at data in Detroit and New York and found that largely, residents are travelling outside their neighborhoods to obtain their basic needs.
Disclaimer: For this study, Chase looked at debit and credit card transactions of consumers in Detroit and New York. They measured the median distance between the zip codes of the residents and the zip codes of the merchants they choose to patronize. Then they grouped transactions into seven product types (clothing, entertainment, fuel, grocery, nondurable, pharmacy, and restaurant) to understand which types of retail are most and least accessible. The full report can be found here.
The study found that in 2016, residents of Detroit and New York made 71.6 percent and 56.8 percent of transactions, respectively, outside of their 20-minute neighborhood. For Detroit, this meant that residents had to travel at least 2.1 miles away from their home to make their purchases. But the report also finds that this distance has decreased slightly in the last few years.
