Socioenvironmental Maps—Poverty

Percentage of population living in poverty, 2014. Counties with the highest percentage of the population living in poverty in 2014 were located primarily in Mississippi, southern Georgia, eastern Kentucky, and parts of Alaska, New Mexico, southern Texas, and Alabama. The range in the percentage living in poverty was between 3.2% and 52.2%.

Geographic Patterns: Counties with the highest percentage of the population living in poverty in 2020 were located primarily in Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, West Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Alaska, New Mexico and Alabama. Pockets of high-rate counties are also found in Texas, South Carolina, Montana, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Florida, and Missouri. The range in the percentage living in poverty was between 3.0% and 43.9%.

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Page last reviewed: September 27, 2022

Content source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion , Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention