In Colorado, between 2019-2021:
- Food insecurity in Colorado averaged 10.5%.
- Colorado’s food insecurity rate was slightly higher (0.1 percentage point) than the national average of 10.4%.2The poverty rate in Colorado in 2021 (using the Supplemental Poverty Measure) was 9.4%, which was 1.6 percentage points higher than the nation overall (7.8%).
- Colorado’s poverty rate is high compared to the rest of the nation in large part because of the high cost of housing. Four in 10 low-income people in Colorado are homeless or pay over half their income for rent.
- SNAP, alone, lifted 102,000 people above the poverty line in Colorado, including 49,000 children, per year between 2013 and 2017, on average.
