List of poorest U.S. cities (state, America, population, Atlanta)

[Trae713]

List of poorest U.S. cities:

 1. Detroit, 33.3% in poverty
 2. Cleveland, 30.5% in poverty
 3. Buffalo, 30.3% in poverty
 4. Newark, 26.1% in poverty
 5. Miami, 25.6% in poverty
 6. Fresno, 25.5% in poverty
 7. Cincinnati, 25.1% in poverty
 8. Toledo, 24.7% in poverty
 9. El Paso, 24.3% in poverty
 10. Philadelphia, 24.1% in poverty
 11. Milwaukee, 23.4% in poverty
 12. Memphis, 23.1% in poverty
 13. St. Louis, 22.9% in poverty
 14. Dallas, 22.6% in poverty
 14. New Orleans, 22.6% in poverty
 16. Atlanta, 22.4% in poverty
 17. Stockton, Calif., 21.6% in poverty
 18. Minneapolis, 21.3% in poverty
 19. Pittsburgh, 21.2% in poverty
 20. Tucson, 20.9% in poverty
 21. Chicago, 20.6% in poverty
 22. Columbus, Ohio, 20.1% in poverty
 23. Long Beach, Calif., 19.8% in poverty
 24. Houston, 19.5% in poverty
 25. Los Angeles, 19.4% in poverty

You can find the list here: Los Angeles, other cities see high poverty marks - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:

American Community Survey (ACS)

[noid_1985]

tough break for Ohio- 4 cities on the list...shocked not to see Baltimore on the list. The Rust belts got hit hard

[ThroatGuzzler]

How many threads like this are out there? Almost 50% of the topics here are regarding poverty..

[Infamous92]

Wow I never knew 1/3rd of Detroit was impoverished, I know NYC has a lot of poverty but it has a lot of people to offset the percentage.

[SewickleyPA]

Cities that surprised me for how high they were on the list:

Miami
Cincinnati
Dallas
Minneapolis
Columbus... wow thought Dayton would be the forth Ohio city.

Baltimore should have made this list for sure... typo?



Side note: Lists like this really prove how far Pittsburgh has come since the Steel industry collapse. Dare I say it should be a beacon of hope for the rest of the rust belt?

[DeaconJ]

Originally Posted by SewickleyPA

Cities that surprised me for how high they were on the list:

Miami
Cincinnati
Dallas
Minneapolis
Columbus... wow thought Dayton would be the forth Ohio city.

Baltimore should have made this list for sure... typo?



Side note: Lists like this really prove how far Pittsburgh has come since the Steel industry collapse. Dare I say it should be a beacon of hope for the rest of the rust belt?

Just give Pittsburgh a couple of years and it won't have the minimum 250,000 population to even be on the list.

[Trae713]

Originally Posted by SewickleyPA

Cities that surprised me for how high they were on the list:

Miami
Cincinnati
Dallas
Minneapolis
Columbus... wow thought Dayton would be the forth Ohio city.

Baltimore should have made this list for sure... typo?

Side note: Lists like this really prove how far Pittsburgh has come since the Steel industry collapse. Dare I say it should be a beacon of hope for the rest of the rust belt?

Click the link...

Baltimore comes in at number 26.

[fashionguy]

Don't you see these are all big cities? I believe they have a population minimum for the list.

Originally Posted by SewickleyPA

Cities that surprised me for how high they were on the list:

wow thought Dayton would be the forth Ohio city.

[18Montclair]

The same cities ranked by
Median Family Income, 2008
Plano, TX $102,275
San Francisco, CA $91,812
Seattle, WA $90,835
San Jose, CA $90,119
Anchorage, AK $87,930
Henderson, NV $78,458
Honolulu, HI $76,549
San Diego, CA $75,562
Virginia Beach, VA $74,358
Raleigh, NC $71,563
Lexington, KY $69,223
Colorado Springs, CO $67,770
Anaheim, CA $67,357
Lincoln, NE $66,734
Washington, DC $66,722
Portland, OR $66,645
Charlotte, NC $65,237
Austin, TX $64,726
Mesa, AZ $62,900
Minneapolis, MN $62,308
Arlington, TX $62,587
Jacksonville, FL $62,035
St Paul, MN $61,353
Omaha, NE $61,337
Albuquerque, NM $61,154
Las Vegas, NV $61,075
Riverside, CA $60,988
Atlanta, GA $60,954
Boston, MA $60,543
Oakland, CA $59,411
Wichita, KS $58,130
Louisville, KY $57,846
Kansas City, MO $57,840
Denver, CO $57,657
Sacramento, CA $57,572
Long Beach, CA $57,639
Aurora, CO $57,340
Phoenix, AZ $57,507
Fort Worth, TX $57,220
Indianapolis, IN $56,855
Bakersfield, CA $56,728
New York, NY $56,552
Tampa, FL $56,049
Greensboro, NC $54,886
Oklahoma City, OK $54,456
Columbus, OH $54,146
Stockton, CA $54,098
Chicago, IL $54,086
Corpus Christi, TX $54,026
Los Angeles, CA $53,577
San Antonio, TX $52,666
Ft Wayne, IN $52,297
Tulsa, OK $51,944
Pittsburgh, PA $51,567
New Orleans, LA $51,146
Houston, TX $48,887
Baltimore, MD $48,216
Tucson, AZ $47,698
Philadelphia, PA $46,363
Cincinnati, OH $46,114
Fresno, CA $44,633
St Louis, MO $44,503
Dallas, TX $43,973
Milwaukee, WI $43,609
El Paso, TX $42,935
Toledo, OH $42,275
Newark, NJ $38,668
Buffalo, NY $35,258
Cleveland, OH $33,986
Miami, FL $33,613
Detroit, MI $32,798

From the same source, American Factfinder of the US Census Bureau

[Fred314X]

There's something wrong with any list of the poorest cities in the United States that doesn't have East St. Louis, Illinois at the top.