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CalFresh Program Information
The CalFresh Program is a Federally funded program that helps low-income people buy the food they need for good health. For most households, CalFresh benefits are only part of their food budget, and they must spend some of their own cash along with their CalFresh benefits in order to buy enough food for a month.
CalFresh Household Profile*
The following is a selection of some of the key characteristics of the households receiving CalFresh benefits in FFY 2011.
| Average Age of Head of Household | 37.3 years |
| Average age of child: | 7.2 years |
| Average number of persons per household: | 2.3 |
| Recipients who are U.S. citizens: | 93.3% |
| Recipients who are female heads of households: | 71.9% |
| Household completing at least 12 years of education: | 62.5% |
| Single-person CalFresh only households: (% of all Non-Assistance Households) | 47.2% |
| CalFresh households that have received CalFresh benefits for five years or more: | 8.0% |
| CalFresh households with earnings: | 21.5% |
| Average CalFresh allotment per household | $315 |
| CalFresh Recipients that also Receive CalWORKS (including two-parent program) Benefits | 32.3% |
| CalFresh Households that also Receive CalWORKS (including two-parent program) Benefits | 27.6% |
| Ethnicity of head of household: --Hispanic/Mixed Race --White --Black --Other --Mixed Race | 40% 31% 19% 8% 2% |
| Ethnicity of the CalFresh recipients: --Hispanic/Mixed Race --White --Black --Other --Mixed Race | 56% 21% 14% 7% 2% |
*Based upon RADEP data for FFY2011