U.S. consumer food at home expenditure share 2014

This statistic shows the share of disposable income spent on food consumed at home in the United States from 1930 to 2014. In 2014, U.S. consumers spent some 5.5 percent of their disposable income on food at home.

Share of disposable income spent on food consumed at home in the U.S. from 1930 to 2014*

Characteristic	Expenditure share
2014	5.5
2013	5.6
2012	5.4
2011	5.5
2010	5.5
2009	5.5
1990	7.3
1930	21.1

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Release date

January 2016

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Region

United States

Survey time period

1930 to 2014

Supplementary notes

* Food includes non-alcoholic beverages.
Food at home includes cash purchases from grocery stores and other retail outlets, including purchases with SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly the Food Stamp Program) and WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) Program vouchers and food produced and consumed on farms (valued at farm prices), but it excludes government-donated foods.
USDA calculations are based on annual household expenditure data from various data sets from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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