Poverty rate by state.
Middle poverty rate across each state's cities. US Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024.
Poverty rateunder 8.3%8.3%–11.1%11.1%–12.4%12.4%–13.8%13.8%+
Every state, ranked
Poverty rate, highest first. Each value is the middle across the cities we list in that state, so states with few cities rest on few numbers.
- 1Mississippi20.6%41 cities
- 2New Mexico19.7%23 cities
- 3Louisiana19.6%57 cities
- 4Arkansas18.3%39 cities
- 5Oklahoma17.2%45 cities
- 6West Virginia17.1%16 cities
- 7Kentucky16.4%45 cities
- 8Alabama15.5%70 cities
- 9District of Columbia15.4%1 city
- 10Pennsylvania14.5%87 cities
- 11Maine13.8%13 cities
- 12Indiana13.5%85 cities
- 13Georgia13.4%113 cities
- 14North Carolina13.3%96 cities
- 15Kansas13.1%35 cities
- 16Tennessee13.1%65 cities
- 17Delaware12.9%11 cities
- 18Nebraska12.7%17 cities
- 19Missouri12.5%87 cities
- 20South Dakota12.5%13 cities
- 21South Carolina12.4%62 cities
- 22Vermont12.4%4 cities
- 23Michigan12.0%101 cities
- 24Texas12.0%267 cities
- 25Nevada11.8%24 cities
- 26Oregon11.8%68 cities
- 27Rhode Island11.7%11 cities
- 28Montana11.5%8 cities
- 29Idaho11.2%25 cities
- 30North Dakota11.1%9 cities
- 31Arizona11.1%68 cities
- 32Florida11.0%342 cities
- 33Iowa11.0%42 cities
- 34Connecticut10.9%35 cities
- 35California10.4%502 cities
- 36Ohio10.4%186 cities
- 37Wyoming9.8%11 cities
- 38Alaska8.7%7 cities
- 39Illinois8.6%224 cities
- 40Massachusetts8.3%89 cities
- 41New Hampshire8.3%15 cities
- 42Wisconsin8.3%96 cities
- 43Minnesota8.2%101 cities
- 44Washington8.2%131 cities
- 45Hawaii8.1%34 cities
- 46Colorado7.8%70 cities
- 47Maryland7.8%138 cities
- 48New Jersey7.4%157 cities
- 49Virginia7.4%129 cities
- 50New York7.3%202 cities
- 51Utah6.3%66 cities