Definition: Estimated percentage of children ages 0-17 living in families with incomes below 200% of their federal poverty threshold and with at least one resident parent who worked at least 50 weeks in the 12 months prior to survey (e.g., in 2016-2020, 23% of California children lived in low-income working families).
Data Source: Population Reference Bureau, analysis of U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey microdata files (Aug. 2022).
Footnote: Data presented are for families with children by birth, marriage, or adoption. The federal poverty threshold was $26,246 for a family of two adults and two children in 2020. Data are displayed for geographies with populations of at least 10,000 based on 2020 estimates. These estimates are based on a survey of the population and are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. The notation S refers to estimates that have been suppressed because the margin of error was greater than 5 percentage points. N/A means that data are not available. Some regions listed are Census Designated Places (CDPs), such as East Los Angeles; CDPs are communities within the unincorporated part of a county. Because of disruptions to data collection in 2020, American Community Survey estimates for 2016-2020 did not meet statistical quality requirements and have larger than usual margins of error; see Information and Advice on 2020 Federal Data Quality and Use.
