Income and Poverty - Food insecurity (2016) To resort data: click column headings. To download data: click here. Name Food insecurity rate Rank Food insecurity rate Child food security rate Mississippi 1 20 24 Arkansas 2 17 23 Louisiana 3 17 23 Alabama 4 17 23 Oklahoma 5 16 23 New Mexico 6 16 26 Kentucky 7 16 19 North Carolina 8 15 21 Texas 9 15 23 Ohio 10 15 20 Georgia 11 15 21 Arizona 12 15 23 Missouri 13 15 17 West Virginia 14 15 20 Tennessee 15 15 20 Michigan 16 14 16 Florida 17 14 21 South Carolina 18 14 19 Maine 19 14 20 Indiana 20 14 18 Alaska 21 13 19 Idaho 22 13 17 Kansas 23 13 18 Oregon 24 13 20 Nevada 25 13 21 Wyoming 26 13 17 Utah 27 13 15 Pennsylvania 28 13 17 Montana 29 12 17 Rhode Island 30 12 17 Vermont 31 12 16 Washington 32 12 18 Delaware 33 12 17 New York 34 12 18 Nebraska 35 12 17 Hawaii 36 12 18 California 37 12 19 South Dakota 38 12 17 Connecticut 39 12 16 Iowa 40 12 16 Colorado 41 11 15 Maryland 42 11 15 Illinois 43 11 16 Virginia 44 11 13 Wisconsin 45 11 16 New Jersey 46 10 14 Massachusetts 47 10 12 Minnesota 48 9 13 New Hampshire 49 9 11 North Dakota 50 7 9 Source: 2016: Map the Meal Gap, (http://www.feedingamerica.org/); DATE LAST UPDATED: December 13, 2018.