Designing healthy communities: creating evidence on metrics for built environment features associated with walkable neighbourhood activity centres

Table 2 Descriptive Statistics for the three cluster solution for NACs

Cluster:	Overall: n=534		High (HW) : n=48		Moderate (MW): n=267		Low (LW): n=219
Built Environment Variables	Mean	SD^a	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Community Design
Pedshed	0.53	0.10	0.63 ^**	0.04	0.57 ^**	0.07	0.46^**	0.09
Community resources	11.03	7.75	27.19 ^**	6.28	12.42 ^**	6.06	5.79 ^**	2.47
Small food stores	16.54	18.63	62.63 ^**	22.32	17.55 ^**	10.44	5.20 ^**	3.19
Other retail	21.37	32.33	101.77 ^**	60.36	18.97 ^**	9.23	6.67 ^**	4.35
Supermarkets	3.64	3.53	12.08 ^**	5.53	3.55 ^**	1.79	1.89 ^**	1.04
Supermarket diversity	1.17	0.47	1.02	0.14	1.11	0.38	1.26 ^**	0.59
Transport stops	70.22	48.92	183.52 ^**	61.00	76.51 ^**	26.18	37.71 ^**	16.59
Transport diversity	2.13	1.04	3.71 ^**	1.05	2.44^**	0.84	1.40 ^**	0.56
Destination diversity	12.80	2.92	15.85 ^**	0.36	14.14 ^**	1.63	10.49 ^**	2.82
Movement Network
Street connectivity	73.74	33.94	160.77 ^**	20.20	71.66 ^**	21.59	57.21 ^**	14.54
Cul de sacs	78.43	60.02	217.38 ^**	75.74	51.30 ^**	25.66	81.06 ^**	40.09
Cul de sac segments≤120m long	64.53	59.15	210.19 ^**	74.75	40.70 ^**	23.70	61.66 ^**	35.91
Connected node ratio	0.19	0.08	0.21 ^**	0.05	0.13 ^**	0.04	0.27 ^**	0.06
Disconnected node ratio	1.05	0.52	1.34	0.39	0.71 ^**	0.27	1.39	0.52
Mean block perimeter	1428.44	1023.18	691.20	218.72	941.74	381.67	2183.40 ^**	1178.63
Walkable block ratio	0.52	0.20	0.78 ^**	0.05	0.60 ^**	0.14	0.37 ^**	0.15
Traffic exposure ratio	0.81	0.08	0.73 ^**	0.07	0.81	0.07	0.83	0.08
Lot Layout
Housing diversity	6.55	1.55	6.48	1.66	6.54	1.55	6.57	1.52
Net residential density	20.96	28.55	76.99^**	65.31	19.82 ^**	14.38	10.07 ^**	2.97

^**Significantly different between remaining cluster types based on Tukey post-hoc tests with p<0.01
^a SD Standard deviation

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