Definition: Level of income as a percentage of federal poverty threshold, for children ages 0-17 (e.g., in 2019, an estimated 34.6% of California children lived at or above 400% of their federal poverty threshold).
Data Source: Population Reference Bureau, analysis of U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey summary files and public use microdata (Oct. 2020).
Footnote: The federal poverty threshold was $25,926 for a family of two adults and two children in 2019. Income level relative to poverty is not determined for children in some living situations; for details, see How the Census Bureau Measures Poverty. 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.
