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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 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)

Black alone
 
People in families, total (2) 		30,986 13,875 44.8 14,928 3,735 25.0 2,410 1,096 45.4 13,648 9,044 66.3
 
In families with no workers (16) 		4,389 3,659 83.4 1,273 756 59.4 344 299 86.9 2,771 2,603 93.9
In families with at least one worker (16) 26,597 10,216 38.4 13,655 2,979 21.8 2,066 796 38.5 10,876 6,441 59.2
      Only one working family member 12,386 7,311 59.0 3,625 1,512 41.7 1,183 568 48.0 7,578 5,231 69.0
      Two or more working family members 14,211 2,905 20.4 10,030 1,467 14.6 883 228 25.8 3,298 1,210 36.7
 
In families with no members working full-time
  year-round (FTYR) (16) 		10,375 8,005 77.2 3,021 1,603 53.1 842 662 78.5 6,511 5,740 88.2
      No part-time or part-year workers 4,389 3,659 83.4 1,273 756 59.4 344 299 86.9 2,771 2,603 93.9
      At least one part-time or part-year worker 5,986 4,347 72.6 1,748 847 48.4 498 362 72.7 3,740 3,137 83.9
          One part-time or part-year worker 4,566 3,546 77.6 984 514 52.2 399 305 76.4 3,183 2,727 85.7
          Two or more part-time or part-year workers 1,420 801 56.4 764 333 43.6 99 57 57.9 557 410 73.6
In families with at least one member who
  worked FTYR (16) 		20,611 5,870 28.5 11,907 2,132 17.9 1,568 434 27.7 7,136 3,304 46.3
      One full-time year-round worker 12,819 5,235 40.8 5,879 1,759 29.9 1,121 364 32.5 5,818 3,112 53.5
          One FTYR and no part-time or part-year
              workers 		7,820 3,765 48.2 2,641 998 37.8 784 263 33.6 4,395 2,504 57.0
          One FTYR and at least one part-time
              or part-year worker 		4,999 1,470 29.4 3,239 761 23.5 337 101 30.0 1,423 608 42.7
      Two or more full-time year-round workers 7,792 635 8.1 6,027 373 6.2 447 70 15.6 1,318 192 14.6
          Two or more FTYR and no part-time or
              part-year workers 		6,129 533 8.7 4,860 321 6.6 295 58 19.7 974 154 15.8
          Two or more FTYR and at least one
              part-time or part-year worker 		1,663 102 6.1 1,167 51 4.4 152 11 7.5 344 39 11.3
 
In families with part-time or part-year workers (16) 		12,648 5,918 46.8 6,154 1,660 27.0 987 475 48.1 5,507 3,784 68.7
      One part-time or part-year worker 10,094 4,838 47.9 4,645 1,177 25.3 822 378 45.9 4,627 3,283 71.0
      Two or more part-time or part-year workers 2,554 1,080 42.3 1,509 482 31.9 165 97 58.9 880 500 56.9

Poverty Footnotes

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