Poverty line maps

[Conan]

My county, Somerset, has the lowest in the country for a county with a population of over 250,000.

You should have broke it down further, into more than three classes. NJ has some great numbers here. I think the highest was 15.6%? Am I correct?

[MasterJedi]

Can anyone make a map for Wisconsin?

[Alcon]

Can anyone make a map for Wisconsin?

You can

You probably know the counties better than we do.

[Joe Republic]

Here's Ohio:





Highest percentage:  Athens County; 27.40%

Lowest percentage:  Delaware County; 3.80%

[Shilly]

Pennsylvania. Data taken from U.S. Census Bureau's Small Area Income & Poverty Estimates, 2004.

[fezzyfestoon]

Updated:


Virginia was a real pain in the ass...and West Virginia looks bad.

[Smash255]

Here's New York (data from the US Census Bureau Small Area Income & Poverty Estimates, 2004):



The state average is 14.5%. The richest county is Putnam (4.5%), and the poorest is the Bronx (28.2%).

Staten island should be yellow 10.0%

[jimrtex]

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Despite the image everyone has of WV, I never knew it was THAT bad. Wow.

[Tender Branson]

Despite the image everyone has of WV, I never knew it was THAT bad. Wow.

What about Mississippi ? Shouldn´t look good either ...

[Alcon]

Despite the image everyone has of WV, I never knew it was THAT bad. Wow.

What about Mississippi ? Shouldn´t look good either ...

Not good at all.

[Tender Branson]

Despite the image everyone has of WV, I never knew it was THAT bad. Wow.

What about Mississippi ? Shouldn´t look good either ...

Not good at all.

At least there´s 1 green spot, DeSoto County, a fast growing, demographically young county in the Memphis area.

[Hatman 🍁]

I thought Loving County had 0% poverty.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Check out Minnesota:



Poverty in Mankato is still 19% though.

Yepp. Very nice, MN also has the 2nd lowest number of uninsured in the US and the 3rd lowest number of people in poverty. A model for the US

In Minnesota, 7.5% of residents live below the poverty line, 2nd only to New Hampshire, which has an impressive rate of 5.6%.

Minnesota has the lowest percentage of uninsured in the nation, at 8.4%, as of 2005.  During the 2007 session of the state legislature, Democrats successfully pushed through funding to get 30,000 children onto state subsidized healthcare programs with hopes for eventual universal coverage for children. 

[Joe Republic]

As expected, Alabama isn't much better than Mississippi:

[Tender Branson]

What about Louisiana ? Should look like a mix of AL and MS, not too well either ...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Nothing like rich white kids finding out how bad things are for the other side, eh?

[Tender Branson]

Nothing like rich white kids finding out how bad things are for the other side, eh?

I ain´t rich.

And yeah, I always try to throw in a state once in a while, so that a bored forum member on here creates a map of this state, then when all 50 states are mapped, a map of the whole US can be created, which then turns out that it already exists on a page on the internet made years before ...

[Joe Republic]

What about Louisiana ? Should look like a mix of AL and MS, not too well either ...

At least AL and MS each had one 'green' county:

[opebo]

Nothing like rich white kids finding out how bad things are for the other side, eh?

I ain´t rich.

And yeah, I always try to throw in a state once in a while, so that a bored forum member on here creates a map of this state, then when all 50 states are mapped, a map of the whole US can be created, which then turns out that it already exists on a page on the internet made years before ...

Link?

[Tender Branson]

Nothing like rich white kids finding out how bad things are for the other side, eh?

I ain´t rich.

And yeah, I always try to throw in a state once in a while, so that a bored forum member on here creates a map of this state, then when all 50 states are mapped, a map of the whole US can be created, which then turns out that it already exists on a page on the internet made years before ...

Link?

Actually it was a joke, but if you want a map, you get a map :

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I figured St. Tammany's Parish would be green at least.

[Alcon]

Nothing like rich white kids finding out how bad things are for the other side, eh?

You know, some of us aren't really that "rich" and already know plenty of people who live in poverty. 

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'm sure as hell not rich and I was pointed out earlier, live in a city with a 19% poverty rate.

[Alcon]

I'm sure as hell not rich and I was pointed out earlier, live in a city with a 19% poverty rate.

A college city with a 19% poverty rate isn't really that impressive.  Most of those people have safety nets.  My city has a 16% poverty rate (not all that high, but still troubled), and virtually none of that is ramen poverty.