Income and Poverty - Food insecurity (2017) 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 19 23 Arkansas 2 17 24 Louisiana 3 17 23 Alabama 4 16 22 Oklahoma 5 16 22 New Mexico 6 16 24 Kentucky 7 15 18 Texas 8 15 23 West Virginia 9 15 21 North Carolina 10 15 20 Ohio 11 15 20 Georgia 12 14 20 Missouri 13 14 18 Arizona 14 14 21 Tennessee 15 14 19 Michigan 16 14 16 Alaska 17 14 19 South Carolina 18 14 18 Florida 19 13 20 Indiana 20 13 17 Maine 21 13 19 Kansas 22 13 18 Idaho 23 12 16 Oregon 24 12 19 Wyoming 25 12 17 Nevada 26 12 20 Delaware 27 12 17 Utah 28 12 15 Pennsylvania 29 12 16 Vermont 30 12 16 Nebraska 31 12 17 Washington 32 12 17 South Dakota 33 11 16 Rhode Island 34 11 17 New York 35 11 18 Hawaii 36 11 18 Connecticut 37 11 16 Montana 38 11 16 California 39 11 18 Illinois 40 11 16 Iowa 41 11 15 Maryland 42 11 15 Colorado 43 11 14 Virginia 44 10 13 Wisconsin 45 10 15 New Jersey 46 10 13 New Hampshire 47 9 12 Minnesota 48 9 13 Massachusetts 49 9 12 North Dakota 50 7 10 Source: 2010-2017: Map the Meal Gap, (http://www.feedingamerica.org/); DATE LAST UPDATED: December 19, 2019.