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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 130% of poverty (5) Percentage below 130% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 130% of poverty (5) Percentage below 130% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 130% of poverty (5) Percentage below 130% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 130% of poverty (5) Percentage below 130% of poverty (6)

Black alone
 
People in families, total (2) 		30,986 9,752 31.5 14,928 2,049 13.7 2,410 712 29.5 13,648 6,992 51.2
 
In families with no workers (16) 		4,389 3,211 73.2 1,273 519 40.8 344 270 78.4 2,771 2,422 87.4
In families with at least one worker (16) 26,597 6,541 24.6 13,655 1,529 11.2 2,066 442 21.4 10,876 4,570 42.0
      Only one working family member 12,386 5,213 42.1 3,625 968 26.7 1,183 352 29.8 7,578 3,892 51.4
      Two or more working family members 14,211 1,328 9.3 10,030 561 5.6 883 89 10.1 3,298 678 20.6
 
In families with no members working full-time
  year-round (FTYR) (16) 		10,375 6,741 65.0 3,021 1,057 35.0 842 553 65.7 6,511 5,132 78.8
      No part-time or part-year workers 4,389 3,211 73.2 1,273 519 40.8 344 270 78.4 2,771 2,422 87.4
      At least one part-time or part-year worker 5,986 3,530 59.0 1,748 537 30.7 498 283 56.8 3,740 2,710 72.5
          One part-time or part-year worker 4,566 3,010 65.9 984 347 35.2 399 261 65.4 3,183 2,402 75.5
          Two or more part-time or part-year workers 1,420 520 36.6 764 191 24.9 99 22 22.3 557 307 55.2
In families with at least one member who
  worked FTYR (16) 		20,611 3,011 14.6 11,907 992 8.3 1,568 159 10.1 7,136 1,860 26.1
      One full-time year-round worker 12,819 2,789 21.8 5,879 880 15.0 1,121 122 10.9 5,818 1,787 30.7
          One FTYR and no part-time or part-year
              workers 		7,820 2,203 28.2 2,641 621 23.5 784 91 11.7 4,395 1,490 33.9
          One FTYR and at least one part-time
              or part-year worker 		4,999 586 11.7 3,239 259 8.0 337 30 9.0 1,423 297 20.9
      Two or more full-time year-round workers 7,792 222 2.9 6,027 112 1.9 447 37 8.2 1,318 74 5.6
          Two or more FTYR and no part-time or
              part-year workers 		6,129 212 3.5 4,860 101 2.1 295 37 12.5 974 74 7.6
          Two or more FTYR and at least one
              part-time or part-year worker 		1,663 10 0.6 1,167 10 0.9 152 0 0.0 344 0 0.0
 
In families with part-time or part-year workers (16) 		12,648 4,127 32.6 6,154 807 13.1 987 313 31.7 5,507 3,007 54.6
      One part-time or part-year worker 10,094 3,543 35.1 4,645 601 12.9 822 289 35.2 4,627 2,653 57.3
      Two or more part-time or part-year workers 2,554 584 22.8 1,509 206 13.6 165 24 14.7 880 354 40.2

Poverty Footnotes

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