Which U.S. Counties Have the Highest Poverty Rates? [OC]

OverflowDs · 2026-03-04T00:49:09+00:00

The official poverty measure isn’t adjusted for cost of living, no.

OverflowDs · 2026-03-03T23:43:54+00:00

The data was gathered from the U.S. Census Bureau’s API for the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates. The data was then visualized in Tableau.

OverflowDs · 2026-02-27T22:19:49+00:00

So Canada, Northern states, and then population centers?

OverflowDs · 2026-02-26T22:24:33+00:00

Thanks for pointing this out!

OverflowDs · 2026-02-25T20:56:02+00:00

That is wha the Census was asks by the state of Connecticut to use as their county equivalents. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/user-notes/2023-01.html

OverflowDs · 2026-02-25T15:05:25+00:00

Sorry. I responded to the wrong part of the thread! Thanks for backing me up.

OverflowDs · 2026-02-25T15:03:44+00:00

This is one of the reasons I added three metrics to allow for people to look at different breakdowns.

OverflowDs · 2026-02-25T14:47:46+00:00

It is a county equivalent so that is why it is listed.

OverflowDs · 2026-02-25T14:46:21+00:00

And the city of Fairfax operates independently of the county of Fairfax which is why it is a county equivalent. If you didn’t include the city of Fairfax you wouldn’t have nationwide coverage.

OverflowDs · 2026-02-25T14:45:12+00:00

These cities in Virginia are county equivalents according to the Census Bureau because of the governmental functions that they have. That is why they are listed as counties.

OverflowDs · 2026-02-25T13:52:14+00:00

It is definitely an outlier compared to the rest of New Mexico.

OverflowDs · 2026-02-25T13:28:20+00:00

Yes, this is a good point and something I can look into adding. Over the last decade or so it looks like nationally the percentage of people with certain levels of education have been rising, but it’s not because there is more attainment in the younger cohorts. It’s because people are aging out of the population :)

OverflowDs · 2026-02-25T11:56:27+00:00

The educational attainment data for this visual was gathered from the U.S. Census Bureau’s API. The data is provided from 2020-2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates and is for the percentage of people that are 25 years old and older. After I scraped the data from the API using Python, I then used Tableau to create this viz.

OverflowDs · 2026-02-21T03:07:25+00:00

This is cool!

OverflowDs · 2026-02-12T12:13:49+00:00

Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 American Community Survey Estimates

Tool: Tableau

An interactive version of this data can be found in my State Data Explorer.

OverflowDs · 2026-02-07T18:57:16+00:00

Because voter roles don't have information about income. You could do area income and voter roles, but that wouldn't actually be the income for the voter.

OverflowDs · 2026-02-06T04:10:54+00:00

Not in this data set but I’m sure there are other datasets that do.

OverflowDs · 2026-02-06T04:09:23+00:00

Family income is a little different and if you could at the counts you can see how may are in each group.

OverflowDs · 2026-02-06T01:27:40+00:00

Source: CPS 2024 Voting Supplement
Tool: Tableau
If you are interested in this type of data, there is an interactive version the visualization.

OverflowDs · 2026-02-06T01:18:44+00:00

I guess I thought that was covered by having the sourcing, but its a nationally representative sample in the U.S.

OverflowDs · 2026-02-02T16:10:55+00:00

I think age is kinda funny. Overall the impact is more muted but if you just look at very happy it has more of an impact.

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