In North Dakota, between 2019-2021:
- Food insecurity in North Dakota averaged 7.70%.
- North Dakota’s food insecurity rate was 26% lower than the national average of 10.4%.
- The official poverty rate (which does not account for income from safety-net and tax-support programs such as SNAP, EITC, and others) in the state averaged 9.1%.
- But using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (which does include safety-net and tax-support income), the poverty rate falls to 7.1%. In other words, these programs reduced the poverty rate in North Dakota by 22% and the number of people living in poverty by 15,000.
- SNAP, alone, lifted 15,000 people above the poverty line in North Dakota, including 7,000 children, per year between 2013 and 2017, on average.
