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Is Your Neighborhood Designed to Support Physical Activity? A Brief Streetscape Audit Tool

ORIGINAL RESEARCH — Volume 12 — September 3, 2015

PEER REVIEWED

15-Item Streetscape Audit for Physical Activity-Supportiveness of Environments: MAPS-Mini

Figure 1. Association of active transport with MAPS-Mini scores (percentage of total possible) ranked in quintiles from the poorest (lowest quintile) to the best (highest quintile) activity supportive microscale attributes of the built environment in the 2 younger age groups. Quintiles for children ranged from 13.3% to 54.0% and quintiles for adolescents, 15.7% to 61.9%.

Quintile Children Adolescents
Active Transport (Category Score Range, 0-4) Active Transport (Category Score Range, 0-4)
1st 0.9 1.1
2nd 1.0 1.3
3rd 1.1 1.4
4th 1.1 1.5
5th 1.2 1.6

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15-Item Streetscape Audit for Physical Activity-Supportiveness of Environments: MAPS-Mini

Figure 2. Association of active transport with MAPS-Mini scores (percentage of total possible) ranked in quintiles from the poorest (lowest quintile) to the best (highest quintile) activity supportive microscale attributes of the built environment in the 2 older age groups. Quintiles for younger adults ranged from 14.6% to 59.2%; for older adults, 14.4% to 64.0%. For a complete comparison of quintile total scores with age group activity scores, see Appendix.

Quintile Younger Adults Older Adults
Active Transport (d/wk) Active Transport (times/wk)
1st 0.5 0.2
2nd 0.9 0.4
3rd 1.1 0.5
4th 1.3 0.7
5th 1.6 0.8

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