Interactive: Demographics of Poverty in Texas
By: Bigcountryhomepage.com Staff Reports & Becca Aaronson, Texas Tribune
Updated: December 15, 2011
Nearly 17 percent of Taylor County residents live in poverty, according to the 2006-10 American Community Survey Estimates, which were released in December by the U.S. Census Bureau.
For a family of four, that means the household income is at or below $22,350 a year.
The survey estimates that 20,130 of Taylor County's 122,131 residents live under the federal poverty line, for a total of 16.5 percent.
Of the Big Country, Coleman County has the highest percentage below the poverty level at 29.4 percent.
Stonewall County has the lowest percentage at 11.9.
All Big Country counties are listed alphabetically below.
The American Community Survey Estimates are considered the most up-to-date socioeconomic statistics. To create the estimates, census workers survey samplings of the population across all regions of the country each month to determine demographic, economic and social characteristics. This data set compiles the information from the monthly surveys taken over a five-year time period, 2006 to 2010, which makes the data more reliable by balancing out month-to-month discrepancies. We've also included the margin of error in the tables below. ACS data is used by a variety of organizations to determine the need for educational, employment and health care assistance programs, including federal, state and local governments. To download ACS data, visit the New American FactFinder.
To view the original interactive map from TexasTribune.org, click here.
For a family of four, that means the household income is at or below $22,350 a year.
The survey estimates that 20,130 of Taylor County's 122,131 residents live under the federal poverty line, for a total of 16.5 percent.
Of the Big Country, Coleman County has the highest percentage below the poverty level at 29.4 percent.
Stonewall County has the lowest percentage at 11.9.
All Big Country counties are listed alphabetically below.
The American Community Survey Estimates are considered the most up-to-date socioeconomic statistics. To create the estimates, census workers survey samplings of the population across all regions of the country each month to determine demographic, economic and social characteristics. This data set compiles the information from the monthly surveys taken over a five-year time period, 2006 to 2010, which makes the data more reliable by balancing out month-to-month discrepancies. We've also included the margin of error in the tables below. ACS data is used by a variety of organizations to determine the need for educational, employment and health care assistance programs, including federal, state and local governments. To download ACS data, visit the New American FactFinder.
To view the original interactive map from TexasTribune.org, click here.
- Brown County - 16.2%
- Callahan County - 13.9%
- Coleman County - 29.4%
- Eastland County - 21.0%
- Fisher County - 13.9%
- Haskell County - 18.8%
- Jones County - 12.3%
- Knox County - 16.0%
- Mitchell County - 15.3%
- Nolan County - 19.4%
- Runnels County - 21.6%
- Scurry County - 17.7%
- Shackelford County - 13.2%
- Stephens County - 19.9%
- Stonewall County - 11.9%
- Taylor County - 16.5%
- Throckmorton County - 13.2%
