Glasgow City Region

The Food Foundation and Sheffield University have produced estimated levels of food insecurity for cities and local authorities across the UK. These are based on linking survey data with predictor variables - more detail on the methods is available on their website.

The two variables presented here are ‘hunger’ and ‘food worry’. Hunger refers to those answering positively to the question: “Have you/anyone else in your household ever been hungry but not eaten because you couldn't afford or get access to food over the past month?”. Worry includes anyone answering very or fairly worried to the question: “How worried, if at all, are you currently about getting the food you need?”.

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Glasgow had the third highest estimated levels of hunger among the local authorities that make up Glasgow City Region, with 5.3% of people in the city estimated as having experienced hunger due to lack of access to food in the last month. Estimates were higher in West Dunbartonshire (9.7%) and Inverclyde (10.2%).The lowest estimates were for East Dunbartonshire (2.5%).

Levels of worry about food followed a similar pattern, with estimates in Glasgow (8.4%) being similar to those in North Lanarkshire (8.6%), East Renfrewshire (8.1%) and Renfrewshire (8%). Estimates in Inverclyde (10.5%) and West Dunbartonshire (10.7%) were higher, with estimates of food worry in Inverclyde only slightly higher than those of hunger. Estimated levels of food worry were lowest in East Dunbartonshire (6.6%).

This page was updated in October 2022.