Weekly Household Food Spending per Person, 2004

Category	Number of households¹	Per person
All households	105,717	$40.00
Household composition:
With children < 18	38,082	31.25
At least one child < 6	17,272	28.57
Married-couple families	25,843	32.50
Female head, no spouse	9,155	28.33
Male head, no spouse	2,532	33.00
Other household with child²	552	33.33
With no children < 18	67,635	50.00
More than one adult	40,084	43.33
Women living alone	15,685	$50.00
Men living alone	11,866	60.00
With elderly	23,726	40.00
Elderly, living alone	9,634	45.00
Race/ethnicity of households:
White non-Hispanic	76,372	41.67
Black non-Hispanic	12,344	32.50
Hispanic³	11,371	32.50
Other non-Hispanic	5,631	37.67

1. Totals exclude households that did not answer questions about spending on food. These represented 6.0% of all households.

2. Households with children in complex living arrangements, e.g., children of other relatives or unrelated roommate or border.

3. Hispanics may be of any race.

Source: Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Household Food Security in the United States, 2003. Web: www.ers.usda.gov

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