Interactive: Local Food Insecurity Rates in Pennsylvania
More than 1.7 million Pennsylvanians experienced food insecurity in 2023, but the burden of uncertain food access weighed unevenly across the Commonwealth.
In May, Feeding America released new food insecurity estimates for the United States as of 2023. Pennsylvania’s overall food insecurity rate was 13.2%, meaning that more than 1.7 million residents of the state had uncertain or limited access to the food they needed to thrive.
However, the weight of food insecurity is not spread evenly across the Commonwealth’s 67 counties and 2500+ municipalities; local rates range from a high of 45.2% in parts of Erie County to a low of 3.9% in parts of Allegheny County.
Learn more about how food insecurity affects Pennsylvania’s different communities through the interactive dashboard previewed above!
This is a remarkable tool! I'm going to share this to social media and encourage people to see if their impressions of hunger in our area are accurate! This shows patterns that are quite different than people assume in most of the casual conversations I've had.