About the Community Food Services in Virginia Market Research Report
What’s Included in the Community Food Services in Virginia Market Research Report
Definition of the Community Food Services in Virginia?
Community food service providers collect, prepare and deliver food to people in need. This industry includes food banks, meal-delivery programs and fixed and mobile soup kitchens. Generally, establishments deliver meals to people who cannot prepare their own meals because of age, disability, or illness. Providers may also distribute clothing and blankets.
What’s included in the Community Food Services in Virginia?
The Community Food Services in Virginia includes soup kitchen and on-site meal provision, food pantry and food bank services, food collection and distribution, social assistance, government sources of revenue, private contributions, gifts and grants and other revenue. Related terms covered in the Community Food Services in Virginia industry report includes formerly called the food stamp program, snap is a federal assistance program that provides assistance to low- and no-income people and families living in the united states, the emergency food assistance program (tefap, previously the temporary emergency food assistance program) provides usda‑purchased commodities to state distributing agencies, which work with food banks and other local agencies to supply food pantries, soup kitchens, and similar emergency feeding organizations serving low‑income individuals and households, a place or mobile location where meals are prepared and served on-site to low-income and food-insecure individuals for free or at a very low cost, a facility that sorts, inventories, stores and distributes donated foods for use by government agencies and direct service organizations (e.g., food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters), a location where food is donated and made available to be picked up by low-income and food-insecure individuals for preparation at home and usda's economic research service defines food insecurity as a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate, safe and acceptable food due to a lack of money and other resources. usda classifies an individual's access to food and vulnerability to hunger using the food security supplement to the current population survey (cps), a survey conducted by the us census bureau.
Industry Performance of the Community Food Services industry in Virginia
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Community Food Services in Virginia
#15 in Highest Revenue 2.5% of state's GDPRevenue (2025)
Annual Growth (2020-25)
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Community Food Services in the US
Revenue (2025)
Annual Growth (2020-25)
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Key Drivers of the Community Food Services industry in Virginia
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Virginia Economic Indicators
Population
Median Houshold Income
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US Key External Drivers
Per capita disposable income
Poverty rate
Federal funding for social services
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County Data of the Community Food Services industry in Virginia
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Key Statistics of the Community Food Services industry in Virginia
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