(All population figures are 2004 estimates, unless otherwise noted)

Total Population - 11.9 million, including:

• Approximately 2.82 million children (< 18 years old)
• Approximately 1.76 million elderly (age 65 and older)

Median household income - $44,286*

• 11.3% of population live in poverty
• Approximately 484,000 children live in poverty
• Approximately 141,000 elderly live in poverty

Food Insecurity Rate (2002-2004) - 10.2%*

Food insecurity is defined as having “limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.” The USDA’s food security scale classifies food insecurity as both with and without hunger.

*Three-year average, 2002-2004

Source: America's Second Harvest, Hungry in America 2006