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Lowest food deserts by state

Share living in a low-income, low-access tract.

Residents of tracts that are both low income and far from a food store — USDA’s definition of a food desert, which requires both conditions rather than distance alone. A wealthy county can be far from shops without qualifying, because a car makes distance manageable; the measure is about distance that people cannot easily overcome. Measured on 2020 tracts, so a neighbourhood that gained or lost a store since then is not reflected.

  1. 1District of Columbia0.8%
  2. 2Rhode Island1.3%
  3. 3New York2.2%
  4. 4Vermont2.4%
  5. 5Pennsylvania2.8%
  6. 6Nevada3.3%
  7. 7New Jersey4.7%
  8. 8Illinois5.0%
  9. 9California5.1%
  10. 10North Dakota5.3%
  11. 11Wisconsin5.3%
  12. 12Massachusetts5.5%
  13. 13Michigan5.8%
  14. 14West Virginia6.0%
  15. 15Connecticut6.3%
  16. 16Maine6.3%
  17. 17Ohio6.3%
  18. 18Oklahoma6.8%
  19. 19Kentucky7.3%
  20. 20Utah7.3%
  21. 21Nebraska7.4%
  22. 22Iowa7.5%
  23. 23Indiana7.8%
  24. 24Idaho7.9%
  25. 25Arizona8.3%
  26. 26South Dakota8.4%
  27. 27Texas8.4%
  28. 28New Hampshire9.0%
  29. 29Oregon9.3%
  30. 30Colorado9.4%
  31. 31Washington9.5%
  32. 32Hawaii9.7%
  33. 33Minnesota9.7%
  34. 34Alabama9.8%
  35. 35Maryland10.4%
  36. 36Kansas10.5%
  37. 37Tennessee10.7%
  38. 38Mississippi11.0%
  39. 39South Carolina11.2%
  40. 40Virginia11.2%
  41. 41Florida11.4%
  42. 42Montana11.5%
  43. 43Missouri11.7%
  44. 44Alaska12.4%
  45. 45Wyoming13.2%
  46. 46Delaware13.5%
  47. 47Louisiana13.6%
  48. 48North Carolina13.7%
  49. 49Georgia14.9%
  50. 50Arkansas16.8%
  51. 51New Mexico18.0%
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Source: USDA ERS Food Access Research Atlas (SRAM 2025). · How this is built