UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls

Food Insecurity Indicators

Households with SNAP Benefits

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  • Every county in the St. Croix River Valley, except Burnett County, has lower proportions of their residents receiving SNAP (Food Stamp) benefits than the rest of the state.
  • Counties closer to the Twin Cities metro (Chisago, Washington, Pierce, and St. Croix) have substantially lower proportions of residents receiving SNAP benefits compared to those further away (Polk and Burnett).

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  • The proportion of households in the Wisconsin, St. Croix River Valley counties that were receiving SNAP benefits generally increased until the mid-2010s, where it started to fall until 2020; since then, such proportions have been rising or staying flat in every county of the region and in the state average.
  • Burnett County has consistently had a higher proportion of its residents receiving SNAP benefits than for Wisconsin as a whole.
  • The proportion of Polk County households receiving SNAP benefits has closely followed the state average, while Pierce and St. Croix have consistently been well below the Wisconsin average.

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  • The proportion of households in the Minnesota counties in the St. Croix River Valley that receive SNAP benefits increased steadily until 2016; Chisago County has seen a decline since then and Washington County has remained fairly constant since 2015.
  • Both Chisago and Washington Counties have generally had lower proportions of their residents receiving SNAP benefits than for Minnesota as a whole.
  • Washington County has consistently had a substantially lower proportion of its households receiving SNAP benefits than Chisago County or the state of Minnesota.

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