ISLAND LAB · INTERNAL, BEHIND THE GATE

Food need by neighbourhood

v0.5 · built 2026-10-04
WHAT THIS IS
The share of households receiving SNAP in each census tract.
WHY IT MATTERS
It is the one measure of food need that reaches below the county line.
HOW TO USE IT
Find the neighbourhoods where need is highest. Next, these join the rooms as the food side of each place.

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SNAP receipt is a floor on food need: it counts households receiving the benefit, not every household short of food.

Tract estimates come from a sample; the margin of error is in each tooltip.