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Originally Posted by track2514
I won't hijack your thread Paco and instead I will focus back to the issue you posted. It appears that the central and western PA counties have very high poverty rates. Any theories why this is the case? pman brings up a good point about the students at Penn State and I am wondering if this also influences Indiana County because of IUP. Butler county appears to be the only western PA county with a healthy poverty rate. I am wondering if the wealthy fleeing Allegheny county to avoid property taxes have any influences in this case.
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Most likely because a lot of these counties just have no real industry to speak of. Again, though, I feel like the list is incomplete, even though I realize now that my statement was wrong because PacoMartin is only showing counties below poverty level. Much of the Northern Tier (Bradford, Susquehanna, Tioga, etc.) is missing, and I have a feeling that at least some of those counties are. I wonder where they would place on the list, since there isn't much industry in that region other than natural gas operations.
I'm still skeptical of the list too. Carbon County just seems very poor, and a lot of people are on assistance. What information are they basing this on? Per capita income, household??
Here's a list of the per capita income by county according to 2010 census info.
First column is rank, second is county name, third is per capita income, fourth is median household income, fifth is median family income, sixth is population and last is number of households.
1 Chester $41,251 $84,741 $101,760 498,886 182,900
2 Montgomery $40,076 $76,380 $94,592 799,874 307,750
3 Bucks $35,687 $74,828 $90,274 625,249 234,849
4 Delaware $32,067 $61,876 $77,879 558,979 208,700
5 Cumberland $30,119 $60,219 $75,000 235,406 93,943
6 Allegheny $29,549 $47,961 $65,678 1,223,348 533,960
7 Butler $28,446 $56,878 $69,464 183,862 72,835
8 Northampton $28,362 $58,762 $70,457 297,735 113,565
9 Dauphin $27,727 $52,371 $66,023 268,100 110,435
10 Pike $27,564 $56,843 $62,982 57,369 21,925
United States $27,334 $51,914 $62,982 308,745,538 116,716,292
11 Lehigh $27,301 $53,541 $66,004 349,497 133,983
12 York $27,196 $57,494 $67,624 434,972 168,372
Pennsylvania $27,049 $50,398 $63,364 12,702,379 5,018,904
13 Montour $26,124 $45,255 $57,011 18,267 7,393
14 Washington $26,045 $49,687 $63,690 207,820 85,089
15 Lancaster $25,854 $54,765 $64,672 519,445 193,602
16 Westmoreland $25,845 $47,689 $60,987 365,169 153,650
17 Adams $25,606 $56,529 $66,222 101,407 38,013
18 Lebanon $25,525 $52,356 $62,174 133,568 52,258
19 Berks $25,518 $53,470 $63,724 411,442 154,356
20 Franklin $25,307 $51,035 $61,410 149,618 58,389
21 Monroe $24,824 $56,733 $64,763 169,842 61,091
22 Beaver $24,168 $46,190 $57,201 170,539 71,383
23 Lackawanna $24,152 $43,673 $57,846 214,437 87,226
24 Centre $23,744 $47,016 $65,121 153,990 57,573
25 Perry $23,701 $52,659 $61,221 45,969 17,903
26 Luzerne $23,245 $42,224 $54,843 320,918 131,932
27 Carbon $22,956 $47,744 $54,918 65,249 26,684
28 Wyoming $22,899 $47,403 $56,957 28,276 11,237
29 Blair $22,880 $42,363 $53,166 127,089 52,159
30 Elk $22,729 $43,745 $51,889 31,946 13,693
31 Erie $22,644 $43,595 $56,144 280,566 110,413
32 Wayne $22,525 $45,930 $53,665 52,822 20,625
33 Columbia $22,403 $42,788 $52,959 67,295 26,479
34 Susquehanna $22,173 $43,457 $51,151 43,356 17,798
35 Warren $22,170 $41,286 $52,587 41,815 17,767
36 Armstrong $21,828 $42,752 $52,085 68,941 28,713
37 Lycoming $21,802 $42,689 $52,124 116,111 46,700
38 Mercer $21,765 $42,573 $54,160 116,638 46,442
39 Fulton $21,739 $45,240 $54,946 14,845 6,014
40 Union $21,612 $45,474 $52,664 44,947 14,765
41 Lawrence $21,467 $42,570 $52,370 91,108 37,126
42 Schuylkill $21,408 $42,315 $53,083 148,289 60,192
43 Cameron $21,375 $40,733 $49,922 5,085 2,273
44 Cambria $21,278 $39,574 $50,900 143,679 58,950
45 Philadelphia $21,117 $36,251 $45,619 1,526,006 599,736
46 Snyder $21,072 $44,713 $51,715 39,702 14,750
47 McKean $21,022 $40,097 $50,000 43,450 17,183
48 Bradford $20,979 $40,543 $50,142 62,622 25,321
49 Juniata $20,682 $44,276 $52,489 24,636 9,476
50 Northumberland $20,654 $38,387 $48,708 94,528 39,242
51 Huntingdon $20,616 $41,700 $51,969 45,913 17,280
52 Potter $20,594 $39,196 $47,995 17,457 7,227
53 Indiana $20,587 $40,225 $51,227 88,880 35,005
54 Bedford $20,545 $40,249 $48,825 49,762 20,233
55 Venango $20,522 $39,812 $48,866 54,984 22,621
56 Crawford $20,383 $38,924 $48,557 88,765 35,028
57 Tioga $20,358 $40,338 $48,382 41,981 16,727
58 Jefferson $20,305 $38,406 $47,051 45,200 18,561
59 Clarion $20,259 $40,028 $50,697 39,988 16,128
60 Greene $20,258 $40,498 $49,488 38,686 14,724
61 Clearfield $20,142 $37,130 $46,735 81,642 32,288
62 Somerset $19,903 $39,194 $48,994 77,742 31,090
63 Sullivan $19,718 $36,250 $48,168 6,428 2,777
64 Clinton $19,261 $39,354 $50,055 39,238 15,151
65 Fayette $19,209 $34,796 $44,114 136,606 55,997
66 Mifflin $19,085 $37,539 $46,598 46,682 18,743
67 Forest $14,325 $35,150 $43,750 7,716 2,511
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Sorry I couldn't resist after the argument I have been having with pman in the other thread. This is pretty interesting data and how does this look in terms of city vs. county? In other words, city of Erie vs. Erie county or city of Pittsburgh vs. Allegheny county. I am interested to see if certain cities significantly influence a county's average poverty rate.
