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POV06: Families by Number of Working Family Members and Family Structure: 2008

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2009 Annual Social and Economic Supplement.

(Numbers in thousands)

  Families (total) (10) Married-couple families (11) Families with a male householder, no wife present Families with a female householder, no husband present
All income levels Below 185% of poverty (5) Percentage below 185% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 185% of poverty (5) Percentage below 185% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 185% of poverty (5) Percentage below 185% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 185% of poverty (5) Percentage below 185% of poverty (6)

White alone
Families, total (10)
(Counts of families are obtained
by counting the householder from each family.) 		64,183 13,748 21.4 50,779 7,974 15.7 3,999 1,278 31.9 9,405 4,496 47.8
 
Families with no workers (16) 		9,208 4,129 44.8 7,179 2,457 34.2 440 336 76.5 1,589 1,336 84.1
Families with at least one worker (16) 54,975 9,619 17.5 43,600 5,517 12.7 3,560 941 26.4 7,816 3,160 40.4
      Only one working family member 19,495 6,451 33.1 12,368 3,181 25.7 1,975 698 35.4 5,152 2,572 49.9
      Two or more working family members 35,480 3,168 8.9 31,231 2,337 7.5 1,585 243 15.3 2,664 588 22.1
 
Families with no members working full-time
  year-round (FTYR) (16) 		18,728 8,129 43.4 13,320 4,291 32.2 1,291 794 61.5 4,117 3,043 73.9
      No part-time or part-year workers 9,208 4,129 44.8 7,179 2,457 34.2 440 336 76.5 1,589 1,336 84.1
      At least one part-time or part-year worker 9,520 4,000 42.0 6,141 1,835 29.9 851 458 53.8 2,528 1,707 67.5
          One part-time or part-year worker 6,173 2,973 48.2 3,499 1,162 33.2 622 355 57.2 2,053 1,456 70.9
          Two or more part-time or part-year workers 3,347 1,027 30.7 2,642 673 25.5 230 103 44.7 475 252 53.0
Families with at least one member who
  worked FTYR (16) 		45,455 5,619 12.4 37,458 3,683 9.8 2,709 484 17.9 5,288 1,453 27.5
      One full-time year-round worker 27,479 4,956 18.0 21,104 3,164 15.0 2,002 420 21.0 4,373 1,372 31.4
          One FTYR and no part-time or part-year
              workers 		13,322 3,478 26.1 8,869 2,018 22.8 1,353 343 25.3 3,099 1,116 36.0
          One FTYR and at least one part-time
              or part-year worker 		14,157 1,478 10.4 12,234 1,146 9.4 649 77 11.9 1,274 255 20.0
      Two or more full-time year-round workers 17,976 664 3.7 16,355 519 3.2 706 64 9.0 915 81 8.9
          Two or more FTYR and no part-time or
              part-year workers 		14,599 521 3.6 13,315 406 3.0 570 47 8.3 715 68 9.5
          Two or more FTYR and at least one
              part-time or part-year worker 		3,377 143 4.2 3,040 113 3.7 136 16 11.8 200 13 6.7
 
Families with part-time or part-year workers (16) 		27,054 5,620 20.8 21,416 3,093 14.4 1,636 551 33.7 4,002 1,976 49.4
      One part-time or part-year worker 20,689 4,323 20.9 16,156 2,216 13.7 1,263 438 34.7 3,270 1,669 51.0
      Two or more part-time or part-year workers 6,364 1,297 20.4 5,260 877 16.7 373 113 30.2 732 307 42.0

Poverty Footnotes

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