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Objective

To assess the relationship between alcohol availability, as measured by the density of off-premise alcohol outlets, and alcohol consumption in Los Angeles county and southern Louisiana.

Method

Consumption information was collected through a telephone survey of 2881 households in Los Angeles County and pre-Katrina southern Louisiana nested within 220 census tracts. Respondents’ addresses were geocoded and both neighborhood (census tracts and buffers of varying sizes) and individual (network distance to the closest alcohol outlet) estimates of off-sale alcohol outlet density were computed.

Results

Alcohol outlet density was not associated with the percentage of people who were drinkers in either site. Alcohol outlet density was associated with the quantity of consumption among drinkers in Louisiana but not in Los Angeles. Outlet density within a one-mile buffer of the respondent’s home was …