The City Hit Hardest by Extreme Poverty in Every State

1. Alabama: Mobile
> Concentrated poverty rate: 20.6% of poor pop. (16,113 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 19.3% (state: 18.0%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 18 out of 113
> Unemployment: 14.4% (poor neighborhoods) 7.2% (all other)

2. Alaska: no metro area with concentrated poverty
> State poverty rate: 10.2%

3. Arizona: Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale
> Concentrated poverty rate: 17.5% of poor pop. (122,909 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 15.7% (state: 17.0%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 64 out of 976
> Unemployment: 10.1% (poor neighborhoods) 6.1% (all other)

4. Arkansas: Hot Springs
> Concentrated poverty rate: 13.7% of poor pop. (2,500 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 19.1% (state: 18.1%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 2 out of 20
> Unemployment: 13.4% (poor neighborhoods) 8.8% (all other)

5. California: Visalia-Porterville
> Concentrated poverty rate: 31.1% of poor pop. (38,221 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 27.1% (state: 15.1%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 15 out of 78
> Unemployment: 14.9% (poor neighborhoods) 9.1% (all other)

6. Colorado: Pueblo
> Concentrated poverty rate: 14.8% of poor pop. (4,662 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 19.8% (state: 11.5%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 4 out of 53
> Unemployment: 12.2% (poor neighborhoods) 9.0% (all other)

7. Connecticut: New Haven-Milford
> Concentrated poverty rate: 14.4% of poor pop. (14,490 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 12.1% (state: 10.1%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 11 out of 186
> Unemployment: 17.2% (poor neighborhoods) 7.6% (all other)

8. Delaware: no metro area with concentrated poverty
> State poverty rate: 12.1%

9. Florida: Gainesville
> Concentrated poverty rate: 21.6% of poor pop. (13,016 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 23.1% (state: 15.5%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 8 out of 53
> Unemployment: 6.1% (poor neighborhoods) 6.5% (all other)

10. Georgia: Albany
> Concentrated poverty rate: 43.6% of poor pop. (16,646 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 25.7% (state: 16.9%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 10 out of 43
> Unemployment: 25.0% (poor neighborhoods) 9.5% (all other)

11. Hawaii: Urban Honolulu
> Concentrated poverty rate: 2.1% of poor pop. (1,860 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 9.1% (state: 10.3%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 3 out of 228
> Unemployment: 12.6% (poor neighborhoods) 4.7% (all other)

12. Idaho: Pocatello
> Concentrated poverty rate: 8.9% of poor pop. (1,292 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 17.6% (state: 14.5%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 1 out of 21
> Unemployment: 5.3% (poor neighborhoods) 6.4% (all other)

13. Illinois: Decatur
> Concentrated poverty rate: 32.1% of poor pop. (5,541 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 16.6% (state: 13.5%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 6 out of 34
> Unemployment: 19.8% (poor neighborhoods) 8.2% (all other)

14. Indiana: Fort Wayne
> Concentrated poverty rate: 23.5% of poor pop. (13,944 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 14.1% (state: 14.6%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 11 out of 108
> Unemployment: 13.1% (poor neighborhoods) 5.5% (all other)

15. Iowa: Dubuque
> Concentrated poverty rate: 10.0% of poor pop. (1,109 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 11.9% (state: 12.0%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 1 out of 26
> Unemployment: 4.0% (poor neighborhoods) 3.9% (all other)

16. Kansas: Wichita
> Concentrated poverty rate: 9.7% of poor pop. (8,500 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 13.9% (state: 12.8%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 7 out of 152
> Unemployment: 15.9% (poor neighborhoods) 5.1% (all other)

17. Kentucky: Bowling Green
> Concentrated poverty rate: 23.8% of poor pop. (7,176 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 18.7% (state: 18.3%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 5 out of 37
> Unemployment: 6.7% (poor neighborhoods) 5.6% (all other)

18. Louisiana: Monroe
> Concentrated poverty rate: 35.4% of poor pop. (14,598 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 24.2% (state: 19.6%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 11 out of 44
> Unemployment: 15.5% (poor neighborhoods) 5.5% (all other)

19. Maine: Bangor
> Concentrated poverty rate: 19.0% of poor pop. (4,393 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 15.9% (state: 12.9%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 2 out of 45
> Unemployment: 11.6% (poor neighborhoods) 6.1% (all other)

20. Maryland: Baltimore-Columbia-Towson
> Concentrated poverty rate: 8.8% of poor pop. (25,232 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 10.5% (state: 9.7%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 26 out of 668
> Unemployment: 13.3% (poor neighborhoods) 6.1% (all other)

21. Massachusetts: Springfield
> Concentrated poverty rate: 26.1% of poor pop. (25,438 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 16.4% (state: 11.1%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 15 out of 133
> Unemployment: 18.0% (poor neighborhoods) 6.8% (all other)

22. Michigan: Flint
> Concentrated poverty rate: 38.1% of poor pop. (30,998 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 20.0% (state: 15.6%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 26 out of 129
> Unemployment: 23.2% (poor neighborhoods) 9.1% (all other)

23. Minnesota: St. Cloud
> Concentrated poverty rate: 20.1% of poor pop. (4,968 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 13.3% (state: 10.5%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 1 out of 37
> Unemployment: 7.2% (poor neighborhoods) 4.1% (all other)

24. Mississippi: Jackson
> Concentrated poverty rate: 26.2% of poor pop. (26,951 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 18.5% (state: 21.5%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 21 out of 127
> Unemployment: 16.7% (poor neighborhoods) 7.0% (all other)

25. Missouri: Cape Girardeau
> Concentrated poverty rate: 30.4% of poor pop. (5,442 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 19.1% (state: 14.6%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 5 out of 22
> Unemployment: 12.2% (poor neighborhoods) 4.5% (all other)

26. Montana: Great Falls
> Concentrated poverty rate: 11.2% of poor pop. (1,164 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 13.1% (state: 14.4%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 1 out of 22
> Unemployment: 5.0% (poor neighborhoods) 4.6% (all other)

27. Nebraska: Lincoln
> Concentrated poverty rate: 15.8% of poor pop. (6,671 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 13.7% (state: 12.0%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 6 out of 73
> Unemployment: 7.4% (poor neighborhoods) 3.2% (all other)

28. Nevada: Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise
> Concentrated poverty rate: 6.5% of poor pop. (19,802 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 14.6% (state: 14.2%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 13 out of 487
> Unemployment: 15.7% (poor neighborhoods) 8.3% (all other)

29. New Hampshire: no metro area with concentrated poverty
> State poverty rate: 8.1%

30. New Jersey: Atlantic City-Hammonton
> Concentrated poverty rate: 23.9% of poor pop. (9,739 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 15.3% (state: 10.7%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 9 out of 68
> Unemployment: 17.4% (poor neighborhoods) 10.4% (all other)

31. New Mexico: Las Cruces
> Concentrated poverty rate: 26.3% of poor pop. (15,312 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 27.9% (state: 20.6%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 6 out of 40
> Unemployment: 13.4% (poor neighborhoods) 8.2% (all other)

32. New York: Elmira
> Concentrated poverty rate: 30.0% of poor pop. (3,875 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 15.8% (state: 15.1%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 4 out of 22
> Unemployment: 8.3% (poor neighborhoods) 5.0% (all other)

33. North Carolina: Greenville
> Concentrated poverty rate: 17.9% of poor pop. (7,389 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 24.3% (state: 16.1%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 3 out of 29
> Unemployment: 13.2% (poor neighborhoods) 9.4% (all other)

34. North Dakota: Bismarck
> State poverty rate: 11.0%

35. Ohio: Youngstown-Warren-Boardman
> Concentrated poverty rate: 27.7% of poor pop. (24,453 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 16.7% (state: 14.9%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 23 out of 155
> Unemployment: 18.5% (poor neighborhoods) 6.1% (all other)

36. Oklahoma: Lawton
> Concentrated poverty rate: 19.2% of poor pop. (3,803 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 16.6% (state: 16.2%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 4 out of 33
> Unemployment: 12.5% (poor neighborhoods) 8.2% (all other)

37. Oregon: Medford
> Concentrated poverty rate: 7.5% of poor pop. (2,629 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 16.7% (state: 14.9%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 2 out of 41
> Unemployment: 14.6% (poor neighborhoods) 7.2% (all other)

38. Pennsylvania: Reading
> Concentrated poverty rate: 28.1% of poor pop. (15,374 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 13.6% (state: 13.1%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 9 out of 89
> Unemployment: 22.7% (poor neighborhoods) 6.3% (all other)

39. Rhode Island: Providence-Warwick
> Concentrated poverty rate: 4.9% of poor pop. (9,967 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 13.0% (state: 13.4%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 9 out of 359
> Unemployment: 11.0% (poor neighborhoods) 6.9% (all other)

40. South Carolina: Charleston-North Charleston
> Concentrated poverty rate: 11.1% of poor pop. (11,208 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 13.9% (state: 16.6%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 8 out of 151
> Unemployment: 9.6% (poor neighborhoods) 5.8% (all other)

41. South Dakota: no metro area with concentrated poverty
> State poverty rate: 13.9%

42. Tennessee: Memphis
> Concentrated poverty rate: 28.4% of poor pop. (70,965 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 18.9% (state: 16.7%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 52 out of 309
> Unemployment: 16.3% (poor neighborhoods) 7.6% (all other)

43. Texas: Laredo
> Concentrated poverty rate: 54.2% of poor pop. (45,403 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 31.5% (state: 16.0%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 27 out of 60
> Unemployment: 7.2% (poor neighborhoods) 5.2% (all other)

44. Utah: Ogden-Clearfield
> Concentrated poverty rate: 6.5% of poor pop. (3,623 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 8.7% (state: 11.0%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 3 out of 116
> Unemployment: 14.9% (poor neighborhoods) 4.0% (all other)

45. Vermont: Burlington-South Burlington
> Concentrated poverty rate: 10.9% of poor pop. (2,332 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 10.4% (state: 11.4%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 1 out of 45
> Unemployment: 8.1% (poor neighborhoods) 4.0% (all other)

46. Virginia: Richmond
> Concentrated poverty rate: 10.1% of poor pop. (15,334 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 12.4% (state: 11.2%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 11 out of 290
> Unemployment: 14.5% (poor neighborhoods) 6.2% (all other)

47. Washington: Longview
> Concentrated poverty rate: 23.8% of poor pop. (4,097 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 16.9% (state: 12.2%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 4 out of 24
> Unemployment: 12.9% (poor neighborhoods) 8.0% (all other)

48. West Virginia: Huntington-Ashland
> Concentrated poverty rate: 14.2% of poor pop. (9,437 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 18.8% (state: 17.8%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 8 out of 92
> Unemployment: 12.3% (poor neighborhoods) 6.5% (all other)

49. Wisconsin: Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis
> Concentrated poverty rate: 23.5% of poor pop. (52,706 residents)
> Overall poverty rate: 14.5% (state: 12.3%)
> Neighborhoods with concentrated poverty: 49 out of 422
> Unemployment: 15.1% (poor neighborhoods) 5.1% (all other)

50. Wyoming: no metro area with concentrated poverty
> State poverty rate: 11.1%