API Food Assets Map
This asset map visually depicts various food resources across San Francisco, with a special emphasis on regions with larger concentrations of Asian Pacific Islander (API) residents. The map aims to expand the understanding of food access and systems within and across API communities in San Francisco, serving as a starting point to explore how API community members access food, interact with various typologies of food (e.g., charitable food, grocery stores/markets, restaurants), and experience their community’s food resources. Potential also exists for better understanding the nexus of cultural preservation, economic health, and transportation/mobility. This map was created with funds from the Stupski Foundation, as part of a larger food access and security project in April-June 2021.
Accepts SNAP/WIC
Neighborhoods
Data Sources
Data for this map comes from a variety of sources.
The neighborhood demographics data comes from the 2019 American Community Survey (5-year estimates).
Much of the data on food resources (including corner stores/convenience stores, drug stores, farmers markets, liquor stores, restaurants, and supermarkets/grocery stores) comes from OpenStreetMap.
Many of the supermarkets/grocery stores identified using OpenStreetMap were manually tagged as international grocery stores. In addition, this category was supplemented by lists taken from SF Gate and this 2014 guide.
Additional data on farmers markets also comes from the San Francisco Department of the Environment.
Data on food banks comes from the San Francisco Marin Food Bank website while data on food pantries comes from foodpantries.org.
Data on food pharmacies, a novel program led by the The Food As Medicine Collaborative, was inputted manually.
Data on stores that accept Supplmentary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) comes from the United States Department of Agriculture website. The website wicstorelocator.com was used to gather data on stores that participate in the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) supplemental nutrition program.
Data on stores that accept SNAP/WIC was combined with data taken from other sources above. Efforts were made to remove duplicates, though some may have slipped through the cracks.