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Lowest distance to food by state
Share living far from a food store.
Residents more than a mile by road from a SNAP-authorized food store in an urban area, or more than ten miles in a rural one. Driving distance along the road network rather than straight-line, because how far a shop is as the crow flies is not the question anyone has. Different from the store count beside it: a county can have several supermarkets clustered in one town and still leave most of its residents far from one. The thresholds are USDA’s own and are blunt by design — a mile is nothing with a car and a great deal without one, which is why vehicle access is measured separately in the source.
- 1District of Columbia1.5%
- 2New York10.2%
- 3Vermont10.8%
- 4West Virginia11.4%
- 5Maine12.4%
- 6Rhode Island13.4%
- 7Oklahoma13.6%
- 8California14.0%
- 9Iowa14.0%
- 10Illinois14.4%
- 11Mississippi14.9%
- 12Kentucky15.0%
- 13Oregon15.0%
- 14Texas16.2%
- 15Wisconsin16.3%
- 16Pennsylvania16.4%
- 17Michigan17.0%
- 18Nevada17.8%
- 19Alabama17.9%
- 20Nebraska17.9%
- 21Ohio18.6%
- 22Louisiana18.7%
- 23Arkansas19.1%
- 24Kansas19.4%
- 25Indiana19.5%
- 26Missouri19.9%
- 27Tennessee20.3%
- 28Colorado20.4%
- 29Montana21.0%
- 30New Jersey21.0%
- 31Washington21.1%
- 32Minnesota21.2%
- 33Massachusetts21.3%
- 34New Mexico21.5%
- 35Arizona22.0%
- 36Idaho22.1%
- 37New Hampshire22.6%
- 38South Dakota22.9%
- 39North Dakota23.2%
- 40Virginia23.4%
- 41North Carolina25.0%
- 42Utah25.1%
- 43Hawaii25.8%
- 44South Carolina25.8%
- 45Maryland26.2%
- 46Delaware26.5%
- 47Connecticut26.9%
- 48Wyoming27.1%
- 49Georgia28.2%
- 50Florida28.3%
- 51Alaska31.1%
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<iframe src="https://movermath.com/embed/distance-to-food" width="100%" height="420" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Share living far from a food store by state"></iframe>Source: USDA ERS Food Access Research Atlas (SRAM 2025). · How this is built