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This list of U.S. states and territories by poverty rate covers the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Puerto Rico and their populations' poverty rate. The four other inhabited U.S. territories ( American Samoa , Guam , the Northern Mariana Islands , and the U.S. Virgin Islands ) are listed separately.
Feel free to update it when needed. ... US map. United States Department of Agriculture. ... US map. All people in poverty by state (and D.C.). Percent. 2021.
For example, a low-income state like Mississippi — where the median income for an individual is the lowest in the country at $47,446 — also has the highest rate of persistent poverty at 24.4% ...
The United States has the highest level of income inequality in the Western world, according to a 2018 study by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. The United States has forty million people living in poverty, and more than half of these people live in "extreme" or "absolute" poverty.
“By 2017, that figure had jumped to 43 percent.”Using a version of the Census Bureau’s supplemental poverty measure — a more comprehensive assessment that takes a wide variety of factors ...
Poverty Rates by Age 1959 to 2015. United States. As of 2010, the US Census declared that 15.1% of the general population of the United States lived in poverty: 22% of all people under the age of 18; 13.7% of those between the ages of 19-21; 9% of all people either 65 or older [92]
English: The map above shows the proportion of Americans living below the poverty line in each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico according to the 2016 - 2020 American Community Survey. The data can be found here.
States and territories are sorted by the share of the lowest quintile in aggregate household income, i.e. the share of household income of 20% of the poorest households in the total household income. Due to different methodologies by which the United States Census Bureau and the EPI have calculated their results, the data should not be compared.