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Capital Area Food Bank: nearly half of Prince George's County residents reported food insecurity in 2025, report says
Summary
At a committee briefing Oct. 2, the Capital Area Food Bank presented its 2025 hunger report, reporting 49% of Prince George's County residents were food insecure in the survey period and urging protections for SNAP and Medicaid, workforce upskilling and expansion of programs such as food-as-medicine.
The Capital Area Food Bank told the Prince George's County Council Human Services and Public Safety Committee on Oct. 2 that its 2025 hunger report finds deep and widespread food insecurity across the Washington, D.C., metro area and that 49% of county residents fell into food insecurity during the survey period.
Joseph Tang Yaw, director of advocacy and public policy for the Capital Area Food Bank, said the organization used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's definition of food insecurity. At the regional level he said 36% of households in the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia region were food insecure; the bank's analysis identified more than 800,000 people in the lowest level of food security, meaning…
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