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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.
Among the 50 states, poverty rates ranged broadly, from 7.2% in New Hampshire to roughly 14% and above in each of the 10 states with the highest poverty rates. Between 2021 and 2022, the...
The highest poverty rate in the country is in Mississippi, where 18.8% of the population lives in poverty. However, this has improved from 2012, when the state's poverty rate was nearly 25%. Mississippihas the lowest median household incomeof any state of $44,966.
The 10 states with the highest poverty rates are geographically composed of Southern states and some exceptions, like New Mexico and New York. In the state with the worst level of...
California, Florida, and Mississippi are the three states with the highest percent of residents living in poverty. These represent an interesting mix of regions that economists don’t...
Poverty rates in states ranged from 7.2 percent in New Hampshire to 18.9 percent in Louisiana in 2023. In 3 of the 25 most populous metropolitan areas, poverty significantly changed between 2022 and 2023.
In 2022, the U.S. official poverty rate was 11.5% with a total of 37.9 million people in poverty. This map visualizes the three-year average of poverty rates by U.S. state from 2020 to 2022.
The state's overall poverty rate is 14.7%, and 21.7% of the state's children live in poverty. Arkansas's obesity rate is 37.4%, the third-highest among all states, behind only West Virginia and Mississippi.
Six of the 10 states with the highest poverty rates use the federal minimum wage: Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina. One, West Virginia, has a minimum wage of $9 or less.
Mississippi had among the highest average poverty rates (21.0%). It was the only state with a poverty rate of 20% or more. New Hampshire had the lowest average poverty rate (7.3%). Figure 2 displays the average official poverty rate by state 10 years later, from 2019 to 2021. Among the highlights: