This data shows the total number of U.S. households receiving SNAP benefits broken down by ethnicity. SNAP, formally known as food stamps, helps low-income families who struggle to make ends meet buy food. The program costs taxpayers around 100 billion dollars a year, which is about 2% of the federal budget.
It’s important to note that the graph highlights a selection of ethnicities we felt would be most relevant and engaging for our audience. With hundreds of ethnic groups in the U.S., it’s not possible to include every single one in a single post. If there is a group you would like to see represented, let us know or check out the full table available from the U.S. Census.
It’s also worth noting that we used a logarithmic scale for the y-axis with tick marks at 10K, 100K, 1M, and 10M to better display the wide range in SNAP household counts. This approach helps make the lower numbers like those under 1M visible while still keeping the larger outliers like the White and Black data points in context. Without the log scale, most of the smaller groups would practically be invisible on the graph..
At the time of this writing, the U.S. Census website is unavailable due to the ongoing government shutdown. However, we’ve made many graphs like this before and already have the Excel sheet downloaded prior to the shutdown. The data is the most recent available from the site, covering information for 2024 and released to the public in 2025. So, here is the link to the Excel sheet we obtained earlier this year from the U.S. Census Bureau, which includes all the ethnicity filters (defined by us as ancestry or race) that we use to create our graphs.
If you prefer to wait until the site is back online to verify the data directly, you can use the same link above to access it from the official U.S. Census Bureau website. If the ethnicity or ethnicities aren’t already preselected, you’ll need to manually apply them in Table S0201 by clicking the filter tab and navigating to the race and ancestry sections to select the specific group you’d like to view. Feel free to reach out to us directly on social media or via email with any questions you may have. We'd be happy to assist.
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Source: U.S. Census Table S0201
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