Hunger in NC

Hunger in NC

Every night, people in almost 630,000 North Carolina households don’t have enough to eat. North Carolina has the 8th highest rate of food insecurity in the nation. A food-secure household means that all members of the home have access to enough healthy and nutritious food to support an active and healthy lifestyle. Homes that have low food security often must make tough choices about the amount and quality of food they are able to provide their families. Homes that are considered to have “very low” food security often miss meals. According to the USDA, in the past year, more than 90 percent of these families worried that food would run out, nearly 80 percent could not afford a balanced meal, and people in 96 percent of homes with very low food security skipped meals in order to make food stretch.

Food insecurity does not affect everyone equally. Households with children are more likely to have trouble putting enough nutritious food on the table. Nationally, 16.6 percent of homes with children are food insecure, while only 10.9 percent of homes without children were. Additionally, single-parent households face different rates of food insecurity based on the gender of the parent. 9.4 percent of households led by single mothers experience very low food security compared to 8.2 percent of households with single fathers.

America at Hunger's Edge

In Iredell County alone, FeedNC services 744 families with our Pantry. In north Mecklenburg County, we service approximately 203 families

Copy of Copy of Untitled Design.png — 13.4% of Iredell residents are without food security

Copy of Copy of Untitled Design (3).png — 6,233 - Iredell children receiving Food and Nutrition Services benefits

Copy of Copy of Untitled Design (7).png — Average cost of a meal in NC is $2.87. Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap 2017 study.

Untitled design - 2020-11-10T114004.995.png — Approx. 42,911 individuals live below the poverty level in Iredell County. An estimated 288,222 individuals live below the poverty level in Mecklenburg County

Copy of Copy of Untitled Design (1).png — 21.4% of Iredell children are without food security

Copy of Copy of Untitled Design (4).png — 8,570 - Iredell children without food security

Copy of Copy of Untitled Design (8).png — In North Carolina, 1,503,050 people are struggling with hunger - and of them 461,630 are children.

FeedNC serves an estimated 2,158 from Iredell County and 589 from north Mecklenburg County

Copy of Copy of Untitled Design (2).png — 17.6% of Iredell youth are living in poverty

Copy of Copy of Untitled Design (6).png — In North Carolina, 1 in 5 children struggles with hunger.

Copy of Copy of Untitled Design (5).png — 6.5 million - Children in the U.S. without food security