Food insecurity has been concentrated in Latinx and Black communities, who have been hardest hit by the pandemic.

Share of the population 18+ indicating low or very low food security by race/ethnicity, Massachusetts.

White

Latinx

Black

Asian

13%

2019

24%

10%

13%

2020

26%

24%

13%

Data are sourced from the Current Population Survey (CPS) Food Security Supplement for 2019 and from the Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey for 2020. To increase sample size and reduce margins of error, 5 years of CPS data are pooled, so that 2019 denotes years 2015-2019. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey data, used to produce 2020 data, represent the first 12 weeks of the survey data pooled together, or all of survey phase one. Races/ethnicities not displayed (e.g. Native American) did not have sufficient data for analysis.