Poverty by zip code

Download the notebook instead. View the rest of the datasets in the Open Datasets catalog. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Normally, such an economic shock would result in a spike in the national poverty rate.

However, a steep increase will likely be mitigated by the three rounds of federal stimul us payments. As of , the most recent year with an official poverty rate released by the U. Of course, the poverty rate varies considerably across the country, and there is at least one town in every state where poverty was virtually nonexistent. Round Rock , Arizona. Mcnary , Arizona. San Juan , Puerto Rico. Manderson , South Dakota. Los Ebanos , Texas.

Fresno , California. North Matewan , West Virginia. Sayre , Alabama. Orocovis , Puerto Rico. Loiza , Puerto Rico. Marrowbone , Kentucky. Montezuma Creek , Utah. Wakpala , South Dakota. Pine Ridge , South Dakota. Whiterocks , Utah. Fluker , Louisiana. New Orleans , Louisiana. Spencer , Idaho. Maricao , Puerto Rico. Jasper , Ohio. Bellamy , Alabama. San Carlos , Arizona. Naugatuck , West Virginia. Sapelo Island , Georgia.

Memphis , Tennessee. Many of these Zip codes we examined are located in American Indian Reservations, which, for a variety of historical and contemporary reasons, are often among the most economically disadvantaged communities in the United States. Others are in Rust Belt cities that have suffered for decades from the decline of American manufacturing.

Location: Porcupine, South Dakota Poverty rate: Postal Service Zip codes USPS Zip codes do not define geographic boundaries but instead are a network of mail delivery routes in a service area.

Of the 33, Zip codes the Census Bureau publishes data for, 32, had boundaries that fell within one of the 50 states or the District of Columbia. We similarly excluded Zip codes that had a sampling error too high for their population for which poverty status had been determined, using the same definition. The remaining 20, places were ranked based on their poverty rates. To break ties, we used median household income.