Nearly 50,000 people in Lancaster County face food insecurity, meaning that a staggering one in eleven Lancastrians experiences limited or uncertain access to adequate food throughout the year. Food insecurity is an unacceptable problem anywhere, but it is especially intolerable in a community as abundant as Lancaster.

To that end, the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank published this Community Hunger Mapping report in 2023, the charitable food system’s first major research initiative to better understand the causes, experiences, and dispersion of food insecurity in the county, as well as to make actionable recommendations that can improve neighbor experience at pantries in the immediate future and can begin to eliminate hunger in Lancaster County in the long term.

To learn more about the 2023 Lancaster Community Hunger Mapping Report’s findings and recommendations, please see the Executive Summary or the Full Report.