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Yearly trends SNAP households by demographic and income characteristics
Yearly trends in percentage of SNAP households with demographic characteristics
Year With children With elderly people With non-elderly people with disabilities With nondisabled childless adults subject to work registration* With adults age 18-49 without disabilities in childless households*
1998 58.3% 18.2% 24.4% 11.9%
1999 55.7% 20.1% 26.5% 11.2%
2000 53.9% 21.0% 27.5% 11.4%
2001 53.6% 20.4% 27.7% 12.1%
2002 54.1% 18.7% 27.0% 13.3%
2003 55.1% 17.1% 22.1% 7.9%
2004 54.3% 17.3% 22.7% 8.0%
2005 53.7% 17.1% 23.0% 7.7%
2006 52.0% 17.9% 23.1% 8.0%
2007 51.0% 17.8% 23.8% 8.0% 13.7%
2008 50.6% 18.5% 22.6% 14.2%
2009 49.9% 16.6% 21.2% 16.6%
2010 48.7% 15.5% 19.8% 19.2%
2011 47.1% 16.5% 20.2% 19.7%
2012 45.3% 17.2% 20.0% 19.9%
2013 44.8% 17.4% 20.3% 19.9%
2014 43.6% 19.0% 20.4% 19.3%
2015 42.7% 19.6% 20.2% 19.1%
2016 42.9% 21.8% 20.3% 16.4%
2017 41.7% 24.1% 20.8% 14.5%
2018 41.2% 26.0% 20.7% 13.5%
2019 39.5% 28.1% 21.1% 13.1%
2020 38.1% 28.6% 21.8% 13.4%