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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 200% of poverty (5) Percentage below 200% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 200% of poverty (5) Percentage below 200% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 200% of poverty (5) Percentage below 200% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 200% of poverty (5) Percentage below 200% of poverty (6)

All races
Families, total (10)
(Counts of families are obtained
by counting the householder from each family.) 		78,874 20,969 26.6 59,137 11,021 18.6 5,255 1,938 36.9 14,482 8,011 55.3
 
Families with no workers (16) 		11,269 6,076 53.9 8,077 3,312 41.0 607 482 79.5 2,586 2,282 88.3
Families with at least one worker (16) 67,605 14,893 22.0 51,060 7,709 15.1 4,649 1,455 31.3 11,896 5,729 48.2
      Only one working family member 25,282 9,972 39.4 14,557 4,219 29.0 2,602 1,065 40.9 8,123 4,689 57.7
      Two or more working family members 42,323 4,921 11.6 36,503 3,490 9.6 2,047 390 19.1 3,774 1,040 27.6
 
Families with no members working full-time
  year-round (FTYR) (16) 		23,329 12,081 51.8 15,156 5,749 37.9 1,707 1,154 67.6 6,466 5,178 80.1
      No part-time or part-year workers 11,269 6,076 53.9 8,077 3,312 41.0 607 482 79.5 2,586 2,282 88.3
      At least one part-time or part-year worker 12,060 6,005 49.8 7,079 2,437 34.4 1,101 672 61.0 3,880 2,896 74.6
          One part-time or part-year worker 8,087 4,565 56.4 4,046 1,536 38.0 821 528 64.3 3,221 2,501 77.6
          Two or more part-time or part-year workers 3,973 1,440 36.2 3,033 901 29.7 280 144 51.3 659 395 59.9
Families with at least one member who
  worked FTYR (16) 		55,545 8,889 16.0 43,981 5,272 12.0 3,548 784 22.1 8,016 2,833 35.3
      One full-time year-round worker 33,803 7,765 23.0 24,545 4,426 18.0 2,587 673 26.0 6,672 2,666 40.0
          One FTYR and no part-time or part-year
              workers 		17,195 5,408 31.4 10,511 2,683 25.5 1,782 537 30.1 4,902 2,188 44.6
          One FTYR and at least one part-time
              or part-year worker 		16,609 2,357 14.2 14,033 1,743 12.4 805 136 16.8 1,770 479 27.0
      Two or more full-time year-round workers 21,741 1,124 5.2 19,436 846 4.4 961 111 11.5 1,344 167 12.4
          Two or more FTYR and no part-time or
              part-year workers 		17,705 901 5.1 15,908 680 4.3 757 82 10.8 1,039 140 13.4
          Two or more FTYR and at least one
              part-time or part-year worker 		4,037 222 5.5 3,528 166 4.7 204 29 14.2 305 28 9.0
 
Families with part-time or part-year workers (16) 		32,706 8,584 26.2 24,640 4,346 17.6 2,110 836 39.6 5,955 3,402 57.1
      One part-time or part-year worker 25,257 6,730 26.6 18,664 3,144 16.8 1,656 667 40.3 4,937 2,919 59.1
      Two or more part-time or part-year workers 7,449 1,854 24.9 5,976 1,202 20.1 454 169 37.3 1,019 483 47.4

Poverty Footnotes

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