Title page
Contents
Acknowledgments 3
Introduction 5
Food Insecurity in Low-income Households 5
Number of Persons by Household Food Security Status and Selected Household Characteristics 7
Food Security During the 30 Days Prior to the Food Security Survey 10
Household Responses to Questions in the Food Security Scale 15
Frequency of Occurrence of Behaviors, Experiences, and Conditions That Indicate Food Insecurity 17
Monthly and Daily Occurrence of Food-Insecure Conditions 20
Food Spending by Food-Secure and Food-Insecure Households 21
Use of Community Nutrition Assistance 23
Food Spending by Households That Received Food and Nutrition Assistance 26
Food Security During the 30 Days Prior to the Food Security Survey in Households That Received Food and Nutrition Assistance 27
Combined Use of Federal and Community Food and Nutrition Assista 28
References 33
Table S-1. Households with annual income below 130 percent of the poverty line by food security status and selected household characteristics, 2022 6
Table S-2. Number of individuals by food security status of households and selected household characteristics, 2022 8
Table S-3. Number of children by food security status of households and selected household characteristics, 2022 9
Table S-4. Households by food security status during the 30 days prior to the food security survey and selected household characteristics, 2022 12
Table S-5. Responses to items in the food security scale, 2019-22 15
Table S-6. Percentage of households by food security raw score, 2022 16
Table S-7. Frequency of occurrence of behaviors, experiences, and conditions indicating food insecurity reported by all U.S. households, 2022 18
Table S-8. Frequency of occurrence of behaviors, experiences, and conditions indicating food insecurity reported by households with very low food security, 2022 19
Table S-9. Monthly and daily occurrence of behaviors, experiences, and conditions indicating food insecurity reported by all U.S. households, 2022 20
Table S-10. Weekly household food spending relative to the cost of the Thrifty Food Plan (TFP) by food security status and selected household characteristics, 2022 22
Table S-11. Use of community food and nutrition assistance, 2022 24
Table S-12. Prevalence of food security and food insecurity of households with annual incomes of less than 185 percent of the poverty line, by use of community... 24
Table S-13. Receipt of free groceries, by selected household characteristics, 2022 25
Table S-14. Weekly household food spending relative to the cost of the Thrifty Food Plan (TFP) by participation in selected Federal and community food and nutrition... 26
Table S-15. Prevalence of food insecurity during the 30 days prior to the food security survey, by participation in selected Federal and community food and nutrition... 28
Table S-16. Combined use of Federal and community food and nutrition assistance programs by low-income households, 2022 29
Figure S-1. Prevalence of 30-day food insecurity, 2021 and 2022 13
Figure S-2. Prevalence of 30-day very low food security, 2021 and 2022 14