Kern County, CA Number and Percentage of Households that Received Food Stamps or SNAP By Race and Ethnicity in 2021 (ACS-5Yrs)

Updated on October 31, 2025.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, 46,758 out of 274,705 Kern County, CA households received Food Stamps or SNAP in the last 12 months (i.e. 17.02% of Kern County households).

By Race: As a percentage of the total number of households that received SNAP or Food Stamps, the White Alone racial group constituted 57.60%; the Some Other Race Alone racial group constituted 15.07%, and the Two or More Races racial group constituted 11.22%.

By Ethnicity: As a percentage of the total number of households that received Food Stamps or SNAP, the Non-Hispanic White Alone ethnicity group constituted 30.88%, and the Hispanic or Latino of All Races ethnicity group constituted 51.25%.

Percentage of Each Racial Group's Households that Received SNAP: 14.64% of White Alone households received Food Stamps or SNAP; 22.32% of Some Other Race Alone households received SNAP; and 18.33% of Two or More Races households received SNAP.

The charts and tables below shows the number and percentage of Kern County, CA households that received Food Stamps or SNAP per race and ethnicity. Also, see charts below, for the percentage of each race or ethnicity's households that received Food Stamp or SNAP.

You can also see similar information for other California counties and for California.

Data Source: US Census Bureau.

Kern County, CA Percentage of Total Households that Received Food Stamps or SNAP By Race in 2021

White Alone

Some Other Race Alone

Two or More Races

Black Alone

Asian Alone

American Indian & Alaska Native Alone

Native Hawaiian & Pac. Islander Alone

Kern County, CA Percentage of Total Households that Received Food Stamps or SNAP By Ethnicity in 2021

Hispanic or Latino of All Races

Non-Hispanic White Alone

Kern County, CA Number and Percentage of Households that Received Food Stamps or SNAP By Race in 2021

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Race	Num. of Households that Received Food Stamps or SNAP	Percentage of Total HH that Received Food Stamps or SNAP(%)
White Alone	26934	57.60
Some Other Race Alone	7047	15.07
Two or More Races	5247	11.22
Black Alone	5172	11.06
Asian Alone	1335	2.86
American Indian & Alaska Native Alone	940	2.01
Native Hawaiian & Pac. Islander Alone	83	0.18

Kern County, CA Number and Percentage of Households that Received Food Stamps or SNAP By Ethnicity in 2021