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SAIPE produces poverty and median household income estimates as well as single-year poverty estimates for the school-age population and school districts.
This document presents 2011 data from the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program of the U.S. Census Bureau. The SAIPE program publishes the most current poverty estimates for the total population and median household income estimates annually for all counties. SAIPE produces single-year poverty estimates for the school-age population (age 5-17) for all school districts in the U.S.
Some of the highlights from the 2011 release showed that 923 counties had a school-age poverty rate significantly above and 909 significantly below the national poverty rate of 20.8 percent. In 2011, there were 53.8 million school-age children in 13,529 school districts. Of these, 49.2 percent of all school-age children resided in districts with School District poverty rates greater than 20 percent.
The following estimates are produced for 2011 from the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program:
Counties & States | School districts |
---|---|
all people in poverty | total population |
children under age 18 in poverty | children ages 5 to 17 |
related children ages 5 to 17 in families in poverty | related children ages 5 to 17 in families in poverty |
children under age 5 in poverty (for states only) | |
median household income |
These model-based estimates are produced for school districts, counties and states. They are produced by combining data from administrative records, postcensal population estimates, and the decennial census with direct estimates from the American Community Survey to provide consistent and reliable single-year estimates.
Estimates for counties or states in the sorted tables may not be statistically different from estimates for other counties or states in the tables due to uncertainty in the estimates. Please see uncertainty for information associated with model-based estimates, and also general cautions about comparing model-based estimates.
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