New York State Council on Hunger and Food Policy 2024 Annual Report

The number of New York State residents who did not have enough to eat over two, one-week periods was 76.1 percent higher in August and September of 2024 than in August and September of 2021, according to the US Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey data analyzed by Hunger Free America.

With an estimated 7,760,000 households across New York State, the prevalence of food insecurity is reported by the USDA ERS as 12.3 percent (954,480 households) over the period studied from 2021 to 2023. This prevalence increased from 10.5 percent since the last reporting period from 2018 to 2020, likely due to the pandemic, but it matches the national average according to the USDA ERS.

According to Hunger Free America’s analysis of the USDA ERS data, that means 2.4 million state residents lived in food insecure households from 2021 to 2023. This includes 16.3 percent of children in the state (647,509), 9.6 percent of employed adults (866,737), and 8.7 percent of older residents (412,248).

According to USDA, food secure households nationwide spend $15 per month more on food than is spent by food insecure households. Consequently, if all New York State residents in food insecure households were able to spend as much on food as those in food secure households, that would produce an additional $1.8 billion in food spending.

Using a different methodology that incorporates several other indicators of hunger, the overall population analysis by Feeding America produced a slightly higher 13.4 percent food insecure population across New York in 2022. This equates to over 2,638,700 people (including children).
The data also highlights that 42 percent of the food insecure population (1,530,446 people) were eligible
for SNAP benefits but did not receive enough funds to supply all their food needs.

Complicating an already challenging environment, New York’s farmers are facing a number of challenges and the state’s ability to sustain adequate food production is at risk. In 2022, New York’s farms paid a total of $6.2 billion in expenses, an increase of $1.9 billion from 2017. From 2012 to 2022, hired labor expenditures grew by 68 percent, far surpassing other categories. Despite economic growth,
between 2012 and 2022, the state lost close to 14 percent of its farms and over nine percent of farmland. New York is losing farms and land faster than nationwide averages. The overall decline of farmland is troubling, as conversion to other uses (e.g., residential, commercial, industrial, and even
some uses defined as agricultural) may prevent land use for food production in the future.

More information
https://agriculture.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2025/04/chfp_2024_annualreport.pdf

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