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Persistent-poverty counties, 2025 edition

by Austin Sanders
4/11/2025

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Persistent-poverty counties (2025 edition) are those that had a poverty rate of 20 percent or higher in the 1990 and 2000 Decennial Censuses and in the 2007–11 and 2017–21 5-year American Community Surveys.

Persistent-poverty counties, 2025 edition

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