Population: 611,788 Number in Poverty: 115,551

Poverty Rate

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Gender & Age

Overall

18.9%
Percentage of people who had incomes below the poverty line ($23,834 for a family of four) in 2013.

Children

26.7%
Percentage of children under 18 in related families who had incomes below the poverty line in 2013.

Working-Age Women

19.0%
Percentage of working-age women (ages 18-64) who had incomes below the poverty line in 2013.
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Race & Ethnicity

African American

25.7%

Latino

22.1%

Native American

12.0%

Creating Good Jobs

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Income Inequality Ratio

30.3
The ratio of the share of income going to the top 20 percent of households and the share of income going to the bottom 20 percent of households in 2013.
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Unemployment

8.3%
Percentage of all workers who were unemployed in 2013.
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High School Graduation

59.0%
Percentage of high school students who graduated on time at the end of the 2011–12 school year.
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Disconnected Youth

17.0%
Percentage of youth ages 18 to 24 who were not in school or working in 2012.
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Higher Education Attainment

70.2%
Percentage of young adults ages 25 to 34 who had an associate’s degree or higher from 2010 to 2012.
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Gender Wage Gap

91.0¢
Women’s median earnings for every dollar of men’s median earnings among full-time, year-round workers in 2013.

Strengthening Families and Communities

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Children Living Apart from Parents

11.0 kids
Number of children who lived in foster care for every 1,000 children under age 18 in 2012.
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Teen Birth Rate

38.6 births
Number of births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19 in 2012.

Promoting Family Economic Security

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Hunger and Food Insecurity

13.4%
Percentage of households who were food insecure on average from 2011 to 2013, meaning that at some point during the year, they experienced difficulty providing enough food due to a lack of money or resources.
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Affordable Housing

73.0 units
Number of apartments or other units that were affordable and available for every 100 renter households with very low incomes in 2013. Very low-income households are those with incomes at or below half of median income in the metropolitan or other area where they live.
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