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<h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="name">The Poorest Town in
Each State</h1>
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content="2015-06-05T12:07:50+00:00">June 5, 2015 12:07 pm
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Poverty in the United States is not uniform and varies from
place to place. Still, each state — no matter how rich — has
some poor towns. In every state, there was at least one town
with a median annual household income thousands of dollars
lower than the state’s median income. In Cumberland, Maryland
and Cairo, Illinois the difference was far greater — each had
median household incomes at least $40,000 lower than the
states’ income figures.</div>
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<p>Socioeconomic indicators, such as low educational attainment
rates, largely explain the low incomes in many of these towns.
The poorest towns in only three states had a college attainment
rate that exceeded the national rate of 28.8%. In contrast, the
richest towns in all but six states had a college attainment
rate greater than the national rate. And in 30 states, more than
50% of residents in the richest towns had at least a bachelor’s
degree.</p>
<p><span style="color:#008000;"><strong><a
href="http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/06/05/the-poorest-town-in-each-state/2/"
style="color:#008000;">Click here to see the poorest town
in each state.</a></strong></span></p>
<p>Since every state must have a poorest town, and some states
have far higher incomes than others, a state’s poorest town was
not always especially poor compared to other states or the
nation. Alaska, for example, had a median household income of
$70,760 — the third highest nationwide. It’s poorest town,
however, Ketchikan, had a median household income of $52,266,
roughly in line with the national income figure, and higher than
the typical household income in many states.</p>
<p>In other instances, the poorest town in a given state served to
illustrate the high income inequality in the state. In New York,
which had one of the higher median household incomes compared to
other states, the poorest town, Kaser village, was among the
poorest towns in the nation. The difference between the towns
with the highest and lowest annual income exceeded $100,000 in
just 10 states.</p>
<p>To identify the poorest town in each state, 24/7 Wall St.
reviewed median household incomes for every town with
populations of 25,000 or less in each state from the U.S. Census
Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). Due to relatively
small sample sizes for town-level data, all social and economic
figures are based on five-year estimates for the period
2009-2013. Still, data can be subject to sampling issues. We did
not consider towns where the margin of error at 90% confidence
was greater than 10% of the point estimate of both median
household income and population. Additionally, we did not
include areas classified as census-designated places (CDP). For
these reasons, Rhode Island and Hawaii were excluded from our
list. Towns were compared to both the state and national
figures. We considered the percentage of residents who had at
least a bachelor’s degree, the towns’ poverty rates, and
workforce composition — all from the ACS. The percentage of
housing units that were owned by their occupants — referred to
as the homeownership rate — also came from the ACS.</p>
<p>These are the poorest towns in each state.</p>
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<p><strong>11. Moscow, Idaho<br>
> Town median household income:</strong> $33,164<br>
<strong>> State median household income:</strong> $46,767 (13th
lowest)<br>
<strong>> Town poverty rate:</strong> 11.4%<br>
<strong>> Town population:</strong> 24,141</p>
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<p>Higher education does not always translate to a higher salary, as
is evident in the case of Moscow. As many as 54.4% of town adults
had at least a bachelor’s degree — more than double the
corresponding statewide rate of 25.1% and nearly double the
national rate of 28.8%. Despite the town’s high educational
attainment rate, Moscow still had the lowest median household
income of any town in Idaho.<br>
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