![]() ![]() Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the average in those racial disparities was a 5.7% point difference and rose to 8.0% in 2020. Greenlee reported the smallest difference with a rate that was 4.0 percentage points higher for the Hispanic and Latino population. Santa Cruz reported a rate that was 13.0 percentage points higher for the Hispanic and Latino population. In 2020, all Arizona counties reported food insecurity rates that were higher for the Hispanic and Latino population than for the white, non-Hispanic population. This variation was driven by the vast differences in rural vs non-rural areas in Arizona and differences in income across the region.įigure 5: Percent of Population with Limited Access to Healthy Food (2019) Among the Arizona counties, wide variation existed with a low of 5.5% for Maricopa and a high of 35.3% in Apache (see Figure 5). The metropolitan areas compared in this article ranged between 2.5%-10% with regards to limited access to healthy food, with Tucson’s rate at 8.9%. Among the western states, California posted the lowest percentage of the population with limited access to healthy foods at 3.2%. That may be due, in part, to the rural nature of the state and its generally low income. New Mexico’s rate was more than four percentage points higher than the next state, Arizona, which had 8.7%. ![]() In 2019, the state of New Mexico reported that 13.0% of its population had limited access to healthy foods, ranking it first among western states. Greenlee posted the lowest food insecurity rate at 10.8% (see Figure 4).įigure 4: Percent of Population Food Insecure by Arizona County (2020)Īn additional measure of food insecurity is access to food. Apache was the only county that had a food insecurity rate above 20.0%. ![]() Within the state of Arizona, the majority of counties posted higher food insecurity rates than the state (11.1%). In Tucson, this equated to 131,836 individuals that were food insecure, compared to 527,084 in the Phoenix metro area (10.7%).įigure 3: Percent of Population Food Insecure by MSA (2019) As illustrated in Figure 3, Tucson shared the second-highest percentage of food insecurity, tied with Albuquerque at 12.6% (one percent less than in 2017). Texas had the highest percentage at 13.0%, while Colorado had the lowest at 8.3%.įigure 2: Percent of Population Food Insecure by State (2020)Īmong the metropolitan areas, Colorado Springs had the highest percentage of food insecurity at 15.2% and El Paso the lowest at 8.9%. That ranked Arizona as the state with the third-highest rate of food insecurity among the western states (see Figure 2). In Arizona, 798,790 individuals, or 11.1% of the population, was considered food insecure during 2020. Map the Meal Gap study provides 2020 estimates of food insecurity at the state, county, and district levels. ![]()
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