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Per-capita food sales by state, 2005

Food sales with taxes and tips per person for every state the USDA Economic Research Service per-capita file carries in 2005, one row per state.

Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service - Food Expenditure Series, State food sales per capita, with taxes and tips, for all purchasers (annual, 1997 to 2025; fetched 2026-10-30) (file ers_percapita_state.csv), fetched 2026-10-30. Rows listed: the 51 rows whose Year is 2005. Values are shown as published, with thousands separators; the label beside each figure is the record's own field name, and each state name links to that state's page. Full source list and licence: About.

Across the 51 state rows listed: median Total food per capita sales with taxes and tips (nominal U.S. dollars) $3,343.78; minimum $2,600.96 (Oklahoma); maximum $5,390.13 (District of Columbia).

The constant-dollar columns are the source's own 2025=100 series; nominal and constant figures coincide in 2025, the base year.