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Question
of the Month - November 2003
Question: In the Southern states, what percentage of children under 18
live in poverty, and in what size communities are they found?
Percent children under 18 in poverty by state
and community size
|
State |
State Average |
Non-Rural |
Small Town/Rural (places smaller than
25,000 people) |
Rural
(places smaller than 2,500 people) |
Very Rural (places with fewer than 1,000
people) |
|
Alabama |
21.2 |
22.7 |
19.4 |
25.2 |
25.7 |
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Arkansas |
21.4 |
24.1 |
18.4 |
26 |
27.7 |
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Florida |
17.2 |
17.3 |
15.7 |
23.4 |
24.3 |
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Georgia |
16.7 |
17.3 |
15.2 |
30.4 |
25.5 |
|
Kentucky |
20.4 |
18.7 |
22.3 |
29.8 |
26.7 |
|
Louisiana |
26.3 |
28.1 |
21.5 |
32.9 |
29.9 |
|
Maryland |
10.3 |
10.9 |
6.5 |
13.7 |
15.2 |
|
Mississippi |
26.7 |
29.9 |
23.8 |
37.8 |
37.0 |
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Missouri |
15.3 |
15.3 |
15.1 |
21.6 |
20.8 |
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North Carolina |
15.7 |
16.4 |
14.7 |
23.5 |
22.7 |
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Oklahoma |
19.1 |
20.0 |
17.5 |
24.3 |
25.0 |
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South Carolina |
18.5 |
18.8 |
18.0 |
24.6 |
27.0 |
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Tennessee |
17.6 |
19.3 |
14.7 |
20.4 |
21.1 |
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Texas |
20.2 |
21 |
16.2 |
23 |
23.3 |
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Virginia |
11.9 |
11.8 |
12.1 |
18.7 |
17.6 |
|
West Virginia |
23.9 |
23 |
24.7 |
28.7 |
32.3 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary
File 3, Matrices P53, P77, P82, P87, P90, PCT47, and PCT52
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