Percent of People in Poverty, by State, 2002–2007

The following table shows the poverty rate in the United States as a whole and by state for each year from 2005 to 2007. In addition, the table includes two- and three-year averages since 2002.

State	3-year average 2002–2004	2-year average 2002–2003	2-year average 2003–2004	2005	2006	2007
United States	12.4%	12.3%	12.6%	13.3%	13.3%	13.0%
Alabama	15.5	14.7	16.0	16.9	16.6	16.9
Alaska	9.2	9.2	9.4	10.8	10.9	8.9
Arizona	13.8	13.5	13.9	14.4	14.2	14.2
Arkansas	17.6	18.8	16.4	17.2	17.3	17.9
California	13.2	13.1	13.2	13.3	13.1	12.4
Colorado	9.8	9.7	9.9	10.9	12.0	12.0
Connecticut	8.8	8.2	9.1	8.3	8.3	7.9
Delaware	8.5	8.2	8.2	10.3	11.1	10.5
District of Columbia	16.8	16.9	16.7	18.3	19.6	16.4
Florida	12.3	12.6	12.2	12.8	12.6	12.1
Georgia	12.0	11.5	12.5	14.5	14.7	14.3
Hawaii	9.7	10.3	8.9	9.9	9.3	8.0
Idaho	10.5	10.8	10.0	13.4	12.6	12.1
Illinois	12.5	12.7	12.4	12.0	12.3	11.9
Indiana	10.2	9.5	10.8	12.2	12.7	12.3
Iowa	9.7	9.1	9.9	10.8	11.0	11.0
Kansas	10.7	10.4	11.1	11.7	12.4	11.2
Kentucky	15.4	14.3	16.0	16.9	17.0	17.3
Louisiana	17.0	17.2	16.8	20.2	19.0	18.6
Maine	12.2	12.5	11.6	12.3	12.9	12.0
Maryland	8.6	8.0	9.2	8.3	7.8	8.3
Massachusetts	9.8	10.1	9.7	10.3	9.9	9.9
Michigan	12.1	11.5	12.3	13.1	13.5	14.0
Minnesota	7.0	6.9	7.2	9.2	9.8	9.5
Mississippi	17.7	17.2	17.3	21.0	21.1	20.6
Missouri	10.9	10.3	11.5	13.6	13.6	13.0
Montana	14.3	14.3	14.6	14.6	13.6	14.1
Nebraska	9.9	10.2	9.6	11.0	11.5	11.2
Nevada	10.2	9.9	10.9	11.1	10.3	10.7
New Hampshire	5.7	5.8	5.6	7.6	8.0	7.1
New Jersey	8.2	8.3	8.3	8.7	8.7	8.6
New Mexico	17.5	18.0	17.3	18.4	18.5	18.1
New York	14.4	14.2	14.6	13.9	14.2	13.7
North Carolina	14.8	15.0	15.1	14.9	14.7	14.3
North Dakota	10.3	10.6	9.7	11.6	11.4	12.1
Ohio	10.8	10.3	11.3	13.0	13.3	13.1
Oklahoma	12.6	13.5	11.8	16.4	17.0	15.9
Oregon	11.7	11.7	12.1	14.1	13.3	12.9
Pennsylvania	10.4	10.0	10.9	11.9	12.1	11.6
Rhode Island	11.3	11.3	11.5	11.9	11.1	12.0
South Carolina	14.0	13.5	13.8	15.6	15.7	15.0
South Dakota	12.5	12.1	13.0	13.6	13.6	13.1
Tennessee	14.9	14.4	15.0	15.6	16.2	15.9
Texas	16.4	16.3	16.7	17.5	16.9	16.3
Utah	9.6	9.5	9.5	10.5	10.6	9.7
Vermont	8.8	9.2	8.2	10.4	10.3	10.1
Virginia	9.8	10.0	9.7	10.0	9.6	9.9
Washington	11.7	11.8	12.0	12.0	11.8	11.4
West Virginia	16.1	17.1	15.8	18.0	17.3	16.9
Wisconsin	10.2	9.2	11.0	10.2	11.0	10.8
Wyoming	9.6	9.4	9.9	10.6	9.4	8.7

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplements. Poverty and Health Statistics Branch/HHES Division. Web: www.census.gov .

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