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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 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)

Black alone
 
People in families, total (2) 		30,986 14,662 47.3 14,928 4,156 27.8 2,410 1,154 47.9 13,648 9,353 68.5
 
In families with no workers (16) 		4,389 3,722 84.8 1,273 809 63.6 344 299 86.9 2,771 2,613 94.3
In families with at least one worker (16) 26,597 10,941 41.1 13,655 3,347 24.5 2,066 854 41.4 10,876 6,740 62.0
      Only one working family member 12,386 7,671 61.9 3,625 1,649 45.5 1,183 601 50.8 7,578 5,421 71.5
      Two or more working family members 14,211 3,270 23.0 10,030 1,698 16.9 883 254 28.7 3,298 1,318 40.0
 
In families with no members working full-time
  year-round (FTYR) (16) 		10,375 8,233 79.4 3,021 1,752 58.0 842 665 78.9 6,511 5,816 89.3
      No part-time or part-year workers 4,389 3,722 84.8 1,273 809 63.6 344 299 86.9 2,771 2,613 94.3
      At least one part-time or part-year worker 5,986 4,511 75.4 1,748 942 53.9 498 366 73.4 3,740 3,203 85.6
          One part-time or part-year worker 4,566 3,662 80.2 984 567 57.7 399 308 77.3 3,183 2,786 87.5
          Two or more part-time or part-year workers 1,420 850 59.8 764 375 49.1 99 57 57.9 557 417 75.0
In families with at least one member who
  worked FTYR (16) 		20,611 6,429 31.2 11,907 2,404 20.2 1,568 489 31.2 7,136 3,536 49.6
      One full-time year-round worker 12,819 5,657 44.1 5,879 1,950 33.2 1,121 401 35.8 5,818 3,305 56.8
          One FTYR and no part-time or part-year
              workers 		7,820 4,009 51.3 2,641 1,081 40.9 784 292 37.3 4,395 2,635 60.0
          One FTYR and at least one part-time
              or part-year worker 		4,999 1,648 33.0 3,239 869 26.8 337 109 32.4 1,423 670 47.0
      Two or more full-time year-round workers 7,792 773 9.9 6,027 454 7.5 447 87 19.5 1,318 231 17.6
          Two or more FTYR and no part-time or
              part-year workers 		6,129 646 10.5 4,860 403 8.3 295 61 20.8 974 182 18.7
          Two or more FTYR and at least one
              part-time or part-year worker 		1,663 127 7.6 1,167 51 4.4 152 26 17.1 344 49 14.3
 
In families with part-time or part-year workers (16) 		12,648 6,286 49.7 6,154 1,863 30.3 987 501 50.7 5,507 3,922 71.2
      One part-time or part-year worker 10,094 5,139 50.9 4,645 1,327 28.6 822 404 49.1 4,627 3,408 73.7
      Two or more part-time or part-year workers 2,554 1,146 44.9 1,509 536 35.5 165 97 58.9 880 513 58.4

Poverty Footnotes

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