The number of East Riding Households in food poverty has risen 21% in the most recent figures and the number of households in fuel poverty rose 20%.
The data represents a one month change from March to April.
A report looking at the impact of the cost of living crisis on the vulnerable in the East Riding, says residents reliance on transport and a high proportion of households without access to mains gas has exacerbated the problems.
Councillor Kerri Harold says more households are now falling into relative poverty and there needs to be a joined up effort to tackle the problems.
There are also concerns that the cost of living crisis could become a public health problem.
Over 12 thousand households in the East riding are now in fuel poverty and local foodbanks are reporting an increase in demand.
The county's Director of Public Health, Andy Kingdom, says with more people falling in to food and heat poverty there is a danger that the crisis is piling up more problems for local health systems.
A report compiled for the council's Health and Wellbeing Board entitled "Cost of Living: The impact on the vulnerable in the East Riding" said:
"Locally, our residents and businesses have felt the impact of all of the above, many aspects of which are intensified by the rurality of the East Riding, through a greater reliance on transport and a higher proportion of households without access to mains gas, which has a direct correlation to fuel poverty."
The report contained the most recent data from the East Riding Low Income Family Tracker which showed increases in all the key indicators
- 939 households in cash shortfall in April, compared to 512 households in March (+83%)
- 9,848 households in relative poverty compared to 8,660 households in the previous month (+14%)
- 1,412 households in food poverty compared to 1,170 households in the previous month (+21%)
- 12,077 households in fuel poverty compared to 10,032 households in the previous month (+20%)
- 17,842 households in water poverty compared to 15,079 households in the previous month (+18%)
The report concluded:
"The cost-of-living crisis has been growing in scale and impact, with inflation reaching historic levels and is predicted still yet to peak. Those on the lowest incomes are most exposed and masked within the headline figures and, as the information presented in this briefing shows, increases are hitting low-income households the hardest."
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