About this data

Source: DWP, Family Resources Survey, financial year 2024 to 2025: food security tables

• Food security is measured in the Family Resources Survey with a set of questions about the past 30 days: for example, whether people worried food would run out, ate less or skipped meals because there wasn't enough money for food.
• Low food security means people reduced the quality or variety of their diet; very low food security means they also ate less or went hungry. Food insecure here means either low or very low food security.
• Percentages are published as whole numbers. Regional samples are small (a few hundred to a few thousand households), so differences of a point or two between regions are not meaningful.
• Within London, 15% of households in Inner London were food insecure, compared with 9% in Outer London.

This chart appears in Poverty.