Support us by purchasing Family Promise merchandise!You can use the chart below to compare national, state, and county statistics on poverty. Instructions follow the chart.
Copy the table into a word document and fill it in as you follow the instructions below to find your local statistics.
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Who Is My Neighbor? |
State |
County |
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Percent of People Below the Poverty Line |
13.2% |
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Number of People Below the Poverty Line |
39,829,000 |
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Percent of Children Below the Poverty Line |
19% |
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Number of Children Below the Poverty Line |
14,068,000 |
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Median Income by Household |
$52,175 |
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We have filled in the national statistics used in this Just Neighbors session. The information comes from the U. S. Census Bureau's 2009 Data Release of information from the year 2008, the last year for which complete data is available.
To find your state information at the U. S. Census Bureau website, click here.
- Choose your state from the list that appears below the pull-down menu.
- Click ”Show Result.”
- Find the data and copy and paste it into your chart.
To find your county poverty data, click here.
- Choose your state from the second pull-down menu.
- Choose your county (or other local geographical area) from the list that appears.
- Click "Show Result" and copy the data into your chart.
For data on median income for your state or county, click here.
- On the web page that appears, scroll down, looking for your state.
- Copy the state data.
- Scroll further down the list for the county data.
