Food pantry and emergency kitchen use in the U.S. 2021, by food security status

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Nils-Gerrit Wunsch,
May 29, 2024
This statistic shows the amount of individuals who used food pantries and emergency kitchens in the United States in 2021, by household food security status. At that time, there were around 1.99 million households with very low food security using food pantries in the United States. Compared to 2020, this was an decrease of about 310,000 households.

Use of food pantries and emergency kitchens in the United States in 2021, by household food security status (in 1,000 people)*

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Release date

September 2021

Region

United States

Survey time period

2021

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* The source notes: "Total weighted number of households exclude households that did not answer the question about food pantries or emergency kitchens. Totals in the bottom section also exclude households that did not answer any of the questions in the food security scale."
The term 'emergency kitchen' is synonymous with soup kitchen.

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