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Statistics on children, youth and families in South Dakota from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and South Dakota KIDS COUNT
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Definition
Food insecurity refers to USDA’s measure of lack of access, at times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members and limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate foods. Food insecure children are those children living in households experiencing food insecurity.
Food insecure households are not necessarily food insecure all the time. Food insecurity may reflect a household’s need to make trade-offs between important basic needs, such as housing or medical bills, and purchasing nutritionally adequate foods.
Each year of data represents a standalone snapshot of food insecurity in each state and county and caution should be used before comparing percentages year-by-year. Data starting in 2011 had a slightly altered methodology and should not be directly compared to prior years. Data methodology was altered again in 2018, making data not directly comparable to prior years.
Data Source
Ribar, D.C., Harris, V., Dewey, A., Dawes, S., Hilvers, J., and Engelhard, E. (2026). Map the Meal Gap: An Analysis of Local Food Insecurity and Food Costs in the United States in 2024. Feeding America National Organization.
Notes
Estimates for 2023 were updated slightly with the release of 2024 data due to inaccuracies in the original report Map the Meal Gap.
Last Updated
July 2026