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  Census >ACS Home > Ranking Tables Main > Ranking Tables 2001 Index > Percent of People Below Poverty Level in the Past 12 Months… (Place Level)
Percent of People Below Poverty Level in the Past 12 Months (for whom poverty status is determined)
Population for whom poverty status is determined (Place level)
Rank Place Percent Lower Bound Upper Bound
1 Miami city, FL 27.2 22.1 32.3
2 Cleveland city, OH 25.9 22.3 29.5
3 Buffalo city, NY 25.1 20.3 29.9
4 St. Louis city, MO 24.2 20.4 28.0
5 New Orleans city, LA 24.1 20.6 27.6
6 El Paso city, TX 23.7 20.1 27.3
7 Memphis city, TN 23.3 20.3 26.3
8 Philadelphia city, PA 23.2 21.2 25.2
9 Baltimore city, MD 23.0 19.7 26.3
10 Fresno city, CA 22.2 18.7 25.7
11 Detroit city, MI 21.5 18.5 24.5
12 Stockton city, CA 20.0 14.7 25.3
12 Atlanta city, GA 20.0 16.4 23.6
14 Cincinnati city, OH 19.8 16.3 23.3
15 Chicago city, IL 19.7 17.9 21.5
16 Tucson city, AZ 19.4 18.1 20.7
17 Tampa city, FL 19.2 15.4 23.0
17 New York city, NY 19.2 18.4 20.0
17 Milwaukee city, WI 19.2 16.6 21.8
20 Los Angeles city, CA 18.9 17.4 20.4
21 Oklahoma City city, OK 18.8 15.8 21.8
21 San Antonio city, TX 18.8 16.5 21.1
23 Toledo city, OH 18.7 14.9 22.5
24 Washington city, DC 18.1 16.5 19.8
25 Minneapolis city, MN 17.4 13.8 21.0
26 Houston city, TX 17.2 15.9 18.5
27 Long Beach city, CA 17.1 13.5 20.7
28 Boston city, MA 16.8 14.2 19.4
29 Corpus Christi city, TX 16.6 12.5 20.7
30 Dallas city, TX 16.5 14.2 18.8
31 Sacramento city, CA 16.4 12.9 19.9
32 Oakland city, CA 16.3 12.0 20.6
33 Riverside city, CA 15.6 11.0 20.2
33 St. Paul city, MN 15.6 12.5 18.7
33 Pittsburgh city, PA 15.6 12.3 18.9
33 Nashville-Davidson (balance), TN 15.6 13.0 18.2
37 Phoenix city, AZ 15.0 13.0 17.0
38 Portland city, OR 14.7 13.7 15.7
39 Columbus city, OH 14.4 13.4 15.4
40 Denver city, CO 14.1 11.3 16.9
40 Fort Worth city, TX 14.1 11.1 17.1
42 San Diego city, CA 13.9 12.1 15.7
43 Wichita city, KS 13.8 10.7 16.9
44 Tulsa city, OK 13.7 10.9 16.5
45 Austin city, TX 13.3 11.2 15.4
46 Santa Ana city, CA 13.2 9.2 17.2
47 Albuquerque city, NM 12.4 9.8 15.0
48 St. Petersburg city, FL 12.3 9.2 15.4
49 Kansas City city, MO 12.2 9.6 14.8
50 Seattle city, WA 12.0 10.2 13.8
51 Indianapolis city (balance), IN 11.8 9.8 13.8
52 Honolulu CDP, HI 11.1 9.5 12.8
52 Las Vegas city, NV 11.1 8.8 13.4
54 Colorado Springs city, CO 11.0 7.7 14.3
54 Omaha city, NE 11.0 10.0 12.0
56 Raleigh city, NC 10.4 7.8 13.0
57 Charlotte city, NC 10.3 7.0 13.6
58 Mesa city, AZ 10.0 6.7 13.3
59 Aurora city, CO 9.8 6.3 13.3
60 Anaheim city, CA 9.7 5.6 13.8
61 Jacksonville city, FL 9.1 7.5 10.8
62 San Francisco city, CA 9.0 8.3 9.7
63 Arlington city, TX 8.8 6.0 11.6
64 San Jose city, CA 7.7 5.9 9.5
65 Anchorage municipality, AK 6.0 5.0 7.0
66 Virginia Beach city, VA 5.4 3.9 6.9

  
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2001 American Community Survey

Notes

The table above shows the margin of error, represented by the lower and upper bounds of the 90-percent confidence interval. The confidence interval gives a range of values likely to include the population true value.  The smaller the confidence interval the more precise the estimate of the characteristic of interest.

An "N" entry in the estimate, lower bound, and upper bound columns indicates that data for this geographic area cannot be displayed because the number of sample cases is too small.

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