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POV09: Families With Householders Under Age 65 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 100% of poverty (5) Percentage below 100% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 100% of poverty (5) Percentage below 100% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 100% of poverty (5) Percentage below 100% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 100% of poverty (5) Percentage below 100% of poverty (6)

Black alone
Families, total (10)
(Counts of families are obtained
by counting the householder from each family.) 		8,291 1,877 22.6 3,790 287 7.6 746 145 19.4 3,755 1,446 38.5
 
Families with no workers (16) 		990 731 73.8 202 89 44.3 100 62 62.3 689 580 84.2
Families with at least one worker (16) 7,301 1,146 15.7 3,589 197 5.5 646 83 12.8 3,066 866 28.2
      Only one working family member 3,616 992 27.4 913 126 13.8 398 70 17.7 2,305 796 34.5
      Two or more working family members 3,685 154 4.2 2,676 71 2.7 248 12 4.9 761 70 9.2
 
Families with no members working full-time
  year-round (FTYR) (16) 		2,618 1,500 57.3 618 177 28.7 262 122 46.5 1,738 1,201 69.1
      No part-time or part-year workers 990 731 73.8 202 89 44.3 100 62 62.3 689 580 84.2
      At least one part-time or part-year worker 1,628 769 47.2 416 88 21.1 162 60 36.8 1,050 621 59.2
          One part-time or part-year worker 1,279 693 54.2 222 55 24.9 128 56 43.6 929 581 62.6
          Two or more part-time or part-year workers 349 76 21.9 194 33 16.7 34 4 (B) 121 40 33.2
Families with at least one member who
  worked FTYR (16) 		5,673 377 6.6 3,172 109 3.4 484 23 4.8 2,017 245 12.1
      One full-time year-round worker 3,632 361 9.9 1,537 102 6.6 368 17 4.6 1,728 242 14.0
          One FTYR and no part-time or part-year
              workers 		2,337 300 12.8 691 71 10.2 270 15 5.4 1,376 214 15.6
          One FTYR and at least one part-time
              or part-year worker 		1,296 61 4.7 846 31 3.6 98 3 2.5 351 28 8.0
      Two or more full-time year-round workers 2,041 16 0.8 1,635 8 0.5 116 6 5.2 289 2 0.8
          Two or more FTYR and no part-time or
              part-year workers 		1,720 16 0.9 1,403 8 0.6 83 6 7.2 234 2 1.0
          Two or more FTYR and at least one
              part-time or part-year worker 		321 0 0.0 232 0 0.0 33 0 (B) 56 0 (B)
 
Families with part-time or part-year workers (16) 		3,244 830 25.6 1,495 119 7.9 293 62 21.2 1,457 650 44.6
      One part-time or part-year worker 2,688 752 28.0 1,157 86 7.4 250 58 23.4 1,281 608 47.5
      Two or more part-time or part-year workers 557 78 14.0 338 33 9.6 43 4 (B) 176 42 23.7

Poverty Footnotes

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