The Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) offers assistance to millions of low-income people by providing benefits to buy food. More on the program can be learned from the US Department of Agriculture’s website and for the State of Washington, from its Department of Social and Health Services’ website.

(Please note that all of the visualizations are interactive in nature. Hovering over/clicking individual observations may provide more information.)

According to 5-year estimates of the data collected during the the 2011-2015 American Community Survey, approximately 14.3% of Washington households received food stamps/SNAP.

Question 1: How do the different counties in Washington stack up against each other with respect to the percentage of households that have received food stamps/SNAP? (Margin of error in measurement is also displayed.)

Question 2: Where are different counties geographically located?