Food Insecure Children

This layer displays the percent of children experiencing food insecurity in the year 2023.

Food Insecure Children

Layer displays information about the prevalence of food insecurity among children under age 18 in counties across the United States.

Food Insecurity Rate by County, 2013

Layer displays updated food insecurity rates for US counties. Food insecurity refers to USDA’s measure of lack of access, at times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members and limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate foods. Data is from Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap program, which estimates food insecurity using 2009-13 data.

Food Insecurity, 2018

This layer displays information about the prevalence of food insecurity by County, throughout the United States. This data is acquired from Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap hunger study. Data are estimates generated by Feeding America, using inputs from multiple data sources, including the Current Population Survey (CPS), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and the American Community Survey (ACS).

Adult Obesity by County, 2012

Layer displays the estimated percentage of adults who are obese across all counties in the United States. These figures are multi-year modeled estimates based on survey data from the CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

Fruit and Vegetable Expenditures

This layer displays census-tract level information about fruit and vegetables expenditures (as a percentage of total food-at-home expenditures). This layer has been updated to use the 2014 Consumer Buying Power data from Nielsen SiteReports.

Adult Obesity by County, 2013

Layer displays the estimated percentage of adults who are in obese across all counties in the United States. These figures are multi-year modeled estimates based on survey data from the CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.