This budget calculator is based on the USDA’s low-cost plan for a nutritious diet, which assumes that most food is purchased at a grocery store and prepared at home. The data represents single-person households, averaging for both males and females aged 19 to 50.
Generally, food costs are higher for deliveries to isolated, logistically challenging areas (such as Alaska, Hawaii, and remote parts of the mountain west) or dense, high-cost-of-living urban areas (like Manhattan and the Bay Area).
- Leelanau County, Michigan ($735)
- Crook County, Oregon ($576)
- New York County ($555)
- Kalawao County Hawaii ($516)
- Maui County, Hawaii ($516)
- Wheeler County, Oregon ($507)
- Teton County, Wyoming ($500)
- California’s Marin County ($490)
- Harney County, Oregon ($482)
- Nevada County, California ($481)