A Washington Post article found that residents in low-income neighborhoods face statistically higher rates of pedestrian death. The article tracks this to cities' historic tendency of inequitable investment in pedestrian infrastructure. Also, residents in low-income areas tend to get around by foot more but the pedestrian infrastructure is more likely to be missing or incomplete in poorer areas than wealthier ones.

It analyzed the presence and condition of pedestrian infrastructure, the number of fatal pedestrian crashes, and the income level and number of minorities in a given area by census tract or neighborhood.