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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, not Hispanic
Families, total (10)
(Counts of families are obtained
by counting the householder from each family.) 		54,450 9,310 17.1 44,281 5,406 12.2 3,069 902 29.4 7,100 3,002 42.3
 
Families with no workers (16) 		8,194 3,322 40.5 6,652 2,114 31.8 390 291 74.6 1,152 917 79.6
Families with at least one worker (16) 46,255 5,988 12.9 37,629 3,292 8.7 2,679 611 22.8 5,947 2,085 35.1
      Only one working family member 15,853 4,166 26.3 10,321 1,917 18.6 1,573 507 32.2 3,958 1,742 44.0
      Two or more working family members 30,402 1,822 6.0 27,308 1,375 5.0 1,106 104 9.4 1,989 343 17.2
 
Families with no members working full-time
  year-round (FTYR) (16) 		15,996 6,063 37.9 11,876 3,326 28.0 1,035 612 59.1 3,085 2,124 68.9
      No part-time or part-year workers 8,194 3,322 40.5 6,652 2,114 31.8 390 291 74.6 1,152 917 79.6
      At least one part-time or part-year worker 7,802 2,740 35.1 5,224 1,212 23.2 645 321 49.8 1,933 1,207 62.5
          One part-time or part-year worker 5,076 2,092 41.2 2,993 781 26.1 501 273 54.6 1,581 1,038 65.6
          Two or more part-time or part-year workers 2,726 649 23.8 2,232 431 19.3 144 48 33.3 351 170 48.4
Families with at least one member who
  worked FTYR (16) 		38,453 3,248 8.4 32,405 2,081 6.4 2,034 290 14.2 4,015 877 21.9
      One full-time year-round worker 23,076 2,966 12.9 18,127 1,849 10.2 1,582 267 16.8 3,367 850 25.3
          One FTYR and no part-time or part-year
              workers 		10,777 2,075 19.2 7,329 1,137 15.5 1,072 233 21.8 2,377 705 29.6
          One FTYR and at least one part-time
              or part-year worker 		12,299 892 7.2 10,799 713 6.6 510 33 6.5 990 146 14.7
      Two or more full-time year-round workers 15,377 281 1.8 14,277 231 1.6 452 23 5.1 648 27 4.2
          Two or more FTYR and no part-time or
              part-year workers 		12,605 231 1.8 11,717 189 1.6 377 20 5.4 511 22 4.3
          Two or more FTYR and at least one
              part-time or part-year worker 		2,772 50 1.8 2,560 42 1.6 75 3 3.7 137 5 3.7
 
Families with part-time or part-year workers (16) 		22,873 3,682 16.1 18,583 1,966 10.6 1,230 358 29.1 3,059 1,358 44.4
      One part-time or part-year worker 17,605 2,909 16.5 14,103 1,440 10.2 989 306 30.9 2,513 1,163 46.3
      Two or more part-time or part-year workers 5,268 773 14.7 4,481 527 11.8 241 52 21.4 546 195 35.7

Poverty Footnotes

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