Food Insecurity Statistics in NC

Robeson County

30.3% of Children Live in Food Insecure Homes
Overall percent of population who are food insecure
22
Number in population who are food insecure
29,250
Number of children eligible for free and reduced price school meals
10,690

But of those, how many actually get the meals?

Percent of eligible children actually getting free and reduced price school lunch
71
Percent of eligible children actually getting free and reduced price school breakfast
40
Percent of eligible children actually getting free summer meals
11

County Non-profit Partner Resources

Food Bank
Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeast North Carolina
Food Bank Partner Agencies
Baptist Church B.A.R.T., Inc. Benson Chapel Baptist Church Branch St. UMC Caring Touch Outreach Services Compassionate Home Care Faith Baptist Church Friendly Pentecostal Holiness Church Godwin Heights Baptist Church Gospel Deliverance Baptist Church Heaven Bound New Vision Church Hope Ministries of Lumberton Island Grove Baptist Church Mt. Calvary Holiness Church New Beginning Faith Tabernacle Holiness New Beginnings AOG-Rowland New Philadelphia UMC New Vision Church of God Northside Church of God Odom Baptist Children's Home Paradise Ministry Incorporated Pembroke Church of God Peniel Pentecostal Faith God Piney Grove Baptist Church Robeson House, Inc. Sacred Pathways, Inc. Smyrna Baptist Church Straightway Outreach Center The Friendly Temple Church True Path Holiness Church Union Chapel Community Church
Infant Mortality Rate (per 1,000) live births)
16
Obesity Rate
40
Diabetes Rate
16
Data shown is for 2015, and is the most recent available as of February, 2015. For more information, or data sources related to hunger, food insecurity, health, education, or economic profiles of counties, please contact Maureen Berner, Professor of Public Administration and Government, School of Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, at mberner@sog.unc.edu.
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