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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.
Number in Poverty and Poverty Rate: 1959 to 2017. The US. In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications. Based on poverty measures used by the Census Bureau (which exclude non-cash factors such as food stamps or medical care or public housing), America had 37 million people in poverty in 2023; this is 11 percent of population. [1]
African Americans of both Hispanic and non-Hispanic origin numbered at roughly 2.7 million individuals, increasing in 2018 to 3,908,287. [38] The majority of the Black and African American population of Texas lives in the Greater Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio metropolitan areas. [39] Native Americans are a smaller minority in the state.
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% ...
Texas has the largest African-American population in the country. [14] African Americans are concentrated in eastern, east-central and northern Texas, as well as the Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio metropolitan areas. [15] African Americans form 24 percent of both the cities of Dallas and Houston, 19% of Fort Worth, 8.1 percent of ...
Out-of-wedlock birth rates by race in the United States from 1940–2014. Rate for African Americans is the purple line. Data is from the National Vital Statistics System Reports published by the CDC National Center for Health Statistics. Note: Prior to 1969, African American illegitimacy was included along with other minority groups as "Non ...
Poverty rates have also plunged d ... the CBO found that Americans living below the poverty threshold in 2021 received about 25% of their income from employment earnings, versus 60% in 1979. ...
The American Community Survey determined Dallas had a population of 1,345,076 in 2018. There were 521,198 households at the 2018 estimates, [9] up from 2010's 458,057 households, out of which 137,758 had children under the age of 18 living with them. [7] The owner-occupied housing rate was 40.2% and the renter-occupied housing rate was 59.8%. [10]