In New Hampshire, between 2019-2021:
- Food insecurity in New Hampshire averaged 5.4%.
- New Hampshire’s food insecurity rate was the lowest of any state, just over half 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 5.60%.
- But using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (which does include safety-net and tax-support income), the poverty rate falls to 5.50%, reducing the number of people living in poverty in New Hampshire by 2,000.
- SNAP, alone, lifted 13,000 people above the poverty line in New Hampshire, including 5,000 children, per year between 2013 and 2017, on average.
