• Wendy M Troxel, Regina A Shih, Brett Ewing, Joan S Tucker, Alvin Nugroho, and Elizabeth J D'Amico.
• RAND Corporation, Behavioral and Policy Sciences, 4501 Fifth Avenue, Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Electronic address: wtroxel@rand.org.
• Health Place. 2017 May 1; 45: 39-45.

PurposeNeighborhood-level socioeconomic disadvantage and lower individual-level socioeconomic status are associated with poorer sleep health in adults. However, few studies have examined the association between neighborhood-level disadvantage and sleep in adolescents, a population at high-risk for sleep disturbances.MethodsThe current study is the first to examine how objective (i.e. via census tract-level data) and subjective measures of neighborhood disadvantage are associated with sleep in a racially/ ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of 2493 youth [Non-Hispanic White (20%), Hispanic (46%), Asian (21%), and Multiracial/ Other (13%)].ResultsFindings indicated that greater perceived neighborhood-level social cohesion and lower neighborhood-level poverty were associated with better sleep outcomes in adolescents. However, there was some evidence that the magnitude of the associations differed according to family-level socioeconomic status and race/ ethnicity.ConclusionsFindings suggest that subjective and objective neighborhood characteristics may affect the sleep health of older adolescents, with certain demographic subgroups being particularly vulnerable.Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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