U.S. food pantry and emergency kitchen use by household food security status 2021

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)*

Characteristic	Food pantries	Emergency kitchens
Food-secure households	3,227	110
Households with low food security	2,104	140
Households with very low food security	1,986	188

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Release date

September 2021

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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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