{"metric":"hh_spend_food","title":"Food and non-alcoholic drinks a week","topic":"economy","unit":"£ a week","measure_type":"estimate","geography":"K02000001","comparison_method":"previous_period","latest":{"period_start":"2024-04-01","period_end":"2025-03-31","period_label":"Year ending March 2025","value":73.7,"status":"final","vintage":"2026-06-11"},"comparison":{"period_label":"April 2022 to March 2025 (three-year average)","value":69.2,"vintage":"2026-06-11"},"source":{"publisher":"ONS","publication":"Family Spending workbooks: expenditure by income, region and household type (ONS)","landing_url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/expenditure/datasets/familyspendingworkbook2expenditurebyincome","sheet":"A4","table":"High level expenditure by gross income decile","row":"Food & non-alcoholic drinks","column":"All households","raw_value":"73.70","file_url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/expenditure/datasets/familyspendingworkbook2expenditurebyincome","file_sha256":"2c5d57c9b1afb97533105a83fbc0b92627154ccf62a8ef15fb483e1cb8aa2978","release_date":"2026-06-11","release_label":"FYE 2025, workbook 2 (by income)"},"definition":"Average weekly household expenditure on food and non-alcoholic drinks bought for the home (COICOP group 1), from the ONS Living Costs and Food Survey as published in Family Spending. The all-households figure is UK-wide for one financial year; income-decile and household-composition breakdowns are held on the same series, and regional figures are three-year averages stored against each region's code.","does_not_measure":"What any particular household spends: these are survey averages across households of very different sizes and incomes, sampled from about 5,000 households a year, and regional figures are averaged over three years because single-year samples are small.","links":{"page":"/economy/household-spending-food","series":"/api/metrics/hh_spend_food/series","vintages":"/api/metrics/hh_spend_food/vintages"}}