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  Census >ACS Home > Ranking Tables Main > Ranking Tables 2001 Index > ... People 65 Years and Over Below Poverty Level… (State Level)
Percent of People 65 Years and Over Below Poverty Level in the Past 12 Months
Population 65 years and over (State level)
Rank State Percent Lower Bound Upper Bound
 
United States
10.2
10.0
10.4
1 Mississippi 17.5 15.7 19.3
2 District of Columbia 15.6 13.5 17.7
3 Louisiana 15.4 13.9 16.9
4 Alabama 15.2 13.6 16.9
5 Kentucky 15.1 13.3 16.9
6 Oklahoma 14.0 12.0 16.0
6 Tennessee 14.0 12.5 15.5
8 New Mexico 13.5 11.5 15.5
9 Arkansas 13.3 11.8 14.8
9 North Carolina 13.3 12.0 14.6
9 Texas 13.3 12.6 14.0
12 Georgia 13.2 12.2 14.2
13 South Carolina 13.0 10.5 15.5
14 North Dakota 12.0 10.7 13.3
15 South Dakota 11.6 9.6 13.6
16 West Virginia 11.5 9.9 13.2
17 Maine 11.3 9.5 13.1
18 New York 10.9 10.2 11.6
19 Wyoming 10.8 8.3 13.3
20 Rhode Island 10.5 8.9 12.2
21 Florida 10.3 9.5 11.1
21 Illinois 10.3 9.3 11.3
23 Virginia 10.1 9.3 10.9
24 Kansas 9.9 8.7 11.1
25 Iowa 9.6 8.0 11.3
26 Massachusetts 9.5 8.5 10.5
27 Oregon 9.3 8.0 10.6
28 Colorado 9.2 7.7 10.7
29 Arizona 9.1 8.1 10.1
30 Minnesota 9.0 7.5 10.5
30 Montana 9.0 7.7 10.3
30 Nebraska 9.0 7.8 10.2
30 Pennsylvania 9.0 8.3 9.7
34 Maryland 8.8 7.8 9.8
35 Nevada 8.7 6.9 10.5
36 California 8.5 8.0 9.0
36 Indiana 8.5 7.3 9.7
36 Ohio 8.5 7.8 9.2
39 Missouri 8.4 7.2 9.6
40 Delaware 8.2 6.9 9.5
41 New Hampshire 8.0 6.5 9.5
42 Vermont 7.8 6.2 9.5
43 Michigan 7.7 6.9 8.5
44 Idaho 7.5 6.0 9.0
44 New Jersey 7.5 6.7 8.3
44 Washington 7.5 6.7 8.3
47 Connecticut 7.0 5.8 8.2
48 Wisconsin 6.8 5.6 8.0
49 Hawaii 6.6 5.3 7.9
50 Utah 6.2 4.9 7.5
51 Alaska 4.4 2.8 6.1

  
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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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