U.S. Census Bureau
 Poverty




Poverty 2005


Number in Poverty and Poverty Rates by Race and Hispanic Origin Using 2- and 3-Year Averages:  2003 to 2005
(Numbers in thousands.  People as of March of the following year)
  3-year average           2003-20052 2-year average Change in poverty      (2004-2005 average less 2003-2004 average)3
  2003-20042 2004-20052
Race1 and Hispanic Origin   90-percent   90-percent   90-percent   90-percent
    confidence   confidence   confidence   confidence
  Estimate interval4 (+/-) Estimate interval4 (+/-) Estimate interval4 (+/-) Estimate interval4 (+/-)
   
PERCENTAGE
 
        All races……………………………………………………………………. 12.6 0.2 12.6 0.2 12.7 0.2 0.1 0.2
   
White …………………………………………………………………. 10.6 0.2 10.7 0.2 10.7 0.2 - 0.2
   White, not Hispanic………….…………………………………….. 8.4 0.2 8.4 0.2 8.5 0.2 0.1 0.2
   
Black…………………………………………………………………. 24.7 0.6 24.6 0.7 24.8 0.7 0.3 0.6
   
American Indian and Alaska Native……………………………….. 25.3 2.5 24.5 2.9 26.1 3.0 1.6 2.5
   
Asian…………………………………………………………………….. 10.9 0.8 10.8 0.9 10.5 0.9 -0.3 0.8
   
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander ……………… 12.2 3.6 12.9 4.2 10.8 4.1 -2.1 3.5
   
Hispanic origin (any race)…………………………………………….. 22.0 0.6 22.2 0.7 21.8 0.7 -0.3 0.5
   
NUMBER  
   
        All races……………………………………………………………………. 36,617 494 36,450 575 36,995 579 *544 477
   
White …………………………………………………………………. 24,824 399 24,800 468 25,100 471 300 401
   White, not Hispanic………….…………………………………….. 16,346 329 16,405 387 16,567 388 162 329
   
Black…………………………………………………………………. 8,988 242 8,897 283 9,091 281 194 236
   
American Indian and Alaska Native……………………………….. 573 65 558 75 593 77 35 63
   
Asian…………………………………………………………………..... 1,335 98 1,301 114 1,302 112 1 98
   
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander ……………… 79 24 85 29 66 26 -19 25
   
Hispanic origin (any race)…………………………………………….. 9,180 252 9,087 289 9,245 292 158 226
-Represents zero or rounds to zero.
*Statistically different from zero at the 90-percent confidence level.
1/Federal surveys now give respondents the option of reporting more than one race.  Therefore, two basic ways of defining a race group are possible.  A group such as Asian may be defined as those who reported Asian and no other race (the race-alone or single-race concept) or as those who reported Asian regardless of whether they also reported another race (the race-alone-or-in-combination concept).  This table shows data using the first approach (race alone). The use of the single-race population does not imply that it is the preferred method of presenting or analyzing data. The Census Bureau uses a variety of approaches. Information on people who reported more than one race, such as White and American Indian and Alaska Native or Asian and Black or African American, is available from Census 2000 through American FactFinder.  About 2.6 percent of people reported more than one race in Census 2000. 
2/The 2004 data have been revised to reflect a correction to the weights in the 2005 ASEC.
3/Details may not sum to totals because of rounding.
4/A 90-percent confidence interval is a measure of an estimate's variability.  The larger the confidence interval in relation to the size of the estimate, the less reliable the estimate.  For more information see "Standard errors and their use at" <www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/p60_231sa.pdf>
Source:  U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2004 to 2006 Annual Social and Economic Supplements.
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division