Between June 2025 and June 2026, the number of Texans receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits fell by 646,356, according to USDA’s state-level participation table. The state’s SNAP caseload measured 3,457,259 people in June 2025 and 2,810,903 in June 2026, a decline of about 18.7 percent.
Texas’s decline is steeper in percentage terms than the roughly 12.8 percent drop USDA’s separate national monthly table shows for the same period. USDA marks the June 2026 column in the state table as initial, so the 2,810,903 figure and the size of the year-over-year gap could still move before the data is finalized.
The size of the Texas decline
USDA’s state-level persons table, last updated September 18, 2026, lists Texas’s SNAP participation at 3,457,259 people in June 2025 and 2,810,903 in June 2026. The difference, 646,356 people, works out to about an 18.7 percent decline over the twelve months between the two counts.
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How Texas compares with the national trend
Nationally, USDA’s monthly SNAP table shows total participation falling from 41,678,341 people in June 2025 to 36,352,716 in June 2026, a decrease of about 12.8 percent. Texas’s 18.7 percent decline over the same period is larger than that national rate, meaning the state’s caseload shrank faster than the country’s as a whole.
The states moving the other way
Texas’s decline puts it among the large majority of states in USDA’s table with a lower June 2026 count than a year earlier. Only Alaska and North Dakota recorded a higher SNAP count in June 2026 than in June 2025, rising by about 5.2 percent and 3.4 percent respectively, according to the same state-level table.
Texas’s decline against other states in raw numbers
In absolute terms, Texas’s 646,356-person decline over the year is more than five times the size of the 124,381-person, one-month drop recorded in Georgia’s SNAP caseload between May and June 2026, according to the same state-level table. Both figures come from the same USDA report, but Texas’s change accumulated across twelve months while Georgia’s appeared within one.
USDA’s state table compares June 2026 directly against June 2025, the same twelve-month window used to identify Alaska and North Dakota as the only states with a higher 2026 count. For Texas, that fixed comparison is what produces the 646,356-person gap rather than a comparison against an average or against a different pair of months.
Texas’s pace within the yearlong decline
Texas’s decline did not move at a steady pace across the year. The same state table shows Texas’s SNAP count falling from 2,881,747 people in May 2026 to 2,810,903 in June 2026, a drop of about 2.5 percent in a single month, layered on top of the broader yearlong decline from 3,457,259 people in June 2025. The one-month change is smaller in percentage terms than the 18.7 percent drop measured over the full twelve months, suggesting the pace of Texas’s decline slowed somewhat heading into June.
What the Texas figures count
The state table’s 646,356 figure counts individual SNAP recipients, not households. USDA’s separate national monthly table tracks both households and people, listing 22,388,730 households nationwide in June 2025 alongside 41,678,341 people, but the state-by-state breakdown used for Texas reports only the person count, so every Texas figure in this article refers to individuals rather than cases.
Measured against USDA’s fiscal year 2025 average of 42,145,499 people nationwide, Texas’s June 2026 total of 2,810,903 people amounts to roughly 6.7 percent of the country’s typical monthly caseload that year, a share that has shrunk as the state’s own numbers fell faster than the national rate. A year earlier, Texas’s June 2025 total of 3,457,259 made up a larger share of the national count, since the state’s decline outpaced the nationwide drop over the same twelve months.
Why the state figures still carry an “initial” label
USDA labels the June 2026 column in its state table as initial, the same designation it applies to the national figures for the month. The Food and Nutrition Administration’s SNAP data page does not offer a state-specific explanation for the size of Texas’s decline, and its next update to the same table is what will show whether the 2,810,903 figure holds once June’s data is finalized.
The county- or region-level detail behind Texas’s statewide total is not part of the same USDA table, which reports only a single monthly figure for the entire state, the same level of detail the agency uses for every other state and territory in the same report.
USDA’s own header on the state table marks the figures as current “as of September 11, 2026,” roughly a week ahead of the September 18 update date posted on the Food and Nutrition Administration’s data page. Readers checking Texas’s numbers against a different date on the agency’s site should expect that small lag between when the table was compiled and when the page pointing to it was refreshed.
What a statewide drop doesn’t confirm for one household
A decline as large as Texas’s still runs through individual case files, and a caseload total does not confirm what any single household’s own recertification date or documentation requirement is. The confusing gap is assuming a statewide trend answers a question that only a case-specific renewal notice can.
The SNAP & Medicaid Renewal Organizer includes a renewal document checklist and 51 state packs for confirming what a recertification requires in Texas or any other state.
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This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by a human editor. Figures are linked to their primary sources.
