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 2019, 23.5% of California children lived in low-income working families).
Data Source: Population Reference Bureau, analysis of U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey public use microdata (Oct. 2020).
Footnote: Data presented are for families with children by birth, marriage, or adoption. The federal poverty threshold was $25,926 for a family of two adults and two children in 2019. 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.
