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POV10: People in 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)

  People in families (total) (2) People in married-couple families (11) People in families with a male householder, no wife present People in 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
 
People in families, total (2) 		30,986 7,339 23.7 14,928 1,310 8.8 2,410 497 20.6 13,648 5,533 40.5
 
In families with no workers (16) 		4,389 2,861 65.2 1,273 413 32.4 344 223 64.6 2,771 2,226 80.3
In families with at least one worker (16) 26,597 4,477 16.8 13,655 897 6.6 2,066 274 13.3 10,876 3,307 30.4
      Only one working family member 12,386 3,674 29.7 3,625 565 15.6 1,183 212 17.9 7,578 2,897 38.2
      Two or more working family members 14,211 804 5.7 10,030 332 3.3 883 62 7.0 3,298 410 12.4
 
In families with no members working full-time
  year-round (FTYR) (16) 		10,375 5,676 54.7 3,021 799 26.4 842 397 47.1 6,511 4,480 68.8
      No part-time or part-year workers 4,389 2,861 65.2 1,273 413 32.4 344 223 64.6 2,771 2,226 80.3
      At least one part-time or part-year worker 5,986 2,814 47.0 1,748 386 22.1 498 174 35.0 3,740 2,254 60.3
          One part-time or part-year worker 4,566 2,447 53.6 984 242 24.6 399 162 40.5 3,183 2,043 64.2
          Two or more part-time or part-year workers 1,420 368 25.9 764 144 18.8 99 13 12.7 557 211 37.9
In families with at least one member who
  worked FTYR (16) 		20,611 1,663 8.1 11,907 511 4.3 1,568 100 6.4 7,136 1,052 14.7
      One full-time year-round worker 12,819 1,562 12.2 5,879 474 8.1 1,121 64 5.7 5,818 1,024 17.6
          One FTYR and no part-time or part-year
              workers 		7,820 1,227 15.7 2,641 323 12.2 784 50 6.4 4,395 854 19.4
          One FTYR and at least one part-time
              or part-year worker 		4,999 336 6.7 3,239 152 4.7 337 13 4.0 1,423 171 12.0
      Two or more full-time year-round workers 7,792 101 1.3 6,027 37 0.6 447 36 8.0 1,318 28 2.1
          Two or more FTYR and no part-time or
              part-year workers 		6,129 101 1.6 4,860 37 0.8 295 36 12.2 974 28 2.9
          Two or more FTYR and at least one
              part-time or part-year worker 		1,663 0 0.0 1,167 0 0.0 152 0 0.0 344 0 0.0
 
In families with part-time or part-year workers (16) 		12,648 3,150 24.9 6,154 537 8.7 987 188 19.0 5,507 2,425 44.0
      One part-time or part-year worker 10,094 2,774 27.5 4,645 394 8.5 822 175 21.3 4,627 2,205 47.7
      Two or more part-time or part-year workers 2,554 376 14.7 1,509 144 9.5 165 13 7.6 880 219 24.9

Poverty Footnotes

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