Food Deserts

According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), nearly 39.5 million people — which is about 12.8% of the U.S. population — were living in low-income and low-access areas, often referred to as “food deserts”, as of 2017². These are areas where residents have limited access to supermarkets or large food stores¹.

It’s also worth noting that about 6% of Americans live in more extreme food deserts, where they live more than a mile away from the nearest urban food store or at least 20 miles from the nearest rural food retailer¹.

(1) Exploring America’s Food Deserts – The Annie E. Casey Foundation. https://www.aecf.org/blog/exploring-americas-food-deserts.
(2) Which cities have the most people living in food deserts? – USAFacts. https://usafacts.org/articles/which-cities-have-the-most-people-living-in-food-deserts/.
(3) Barren- Food Deserts and Hunger in America – UAB Institute for Human …. https://sites.uab.edu/humanrights/2022/07/06/barren-food-deserts-and-hunger-in-america/.
(4) en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert.

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