Houston, Texas (TX) Poverty Rate Data
Information about poor and low income residents
Data:
Latest news about poverty in Houston, TX collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations
Poverty rates in Houston
Residents with income below the poverty level in 2016:
| Houston: | 27.3% |
| Whole state: | 20.7% |
| Houston: | 8.6% |
| Whole state: | 6.6% |
19.9%
among residents who are not classified as poor):
Poverty rate among disabled females:
Disability rate in this city among poor females (it is 18.9%
among residents who are not classified as poor):
Renting rate in this city among poor and not poor residents:
| Residents below poverty level: | 74.2% |
| Residents above poverty level: | 50.3% |
Poverty by age in Houston
Poverty by race and place of birth in Houston
- 19.6%Below poverty level
- 80.4%Above poverty level
- 23.6%Below poverty level
- 76.4%Above poverty level
Poverty in families in Houston
Children below poverty level:
| Houston, Texas: | 32.6% |
| State: | 22.2% |
- 37.6%Married-couple family
- 10.8%Male, no wife present
- 51.6%Female, no husband present
- 4.3%Worked full-time, year-round
- 35.2%Worked part-time
- 60.5%Did not work
- 1.0%Both worked full-time
- 4.9%One full-time, other part-time
- 21.6%One full-time, other didn't work
- 9.7%Both worked part-time
- 34.3%One part-time, other didn't work
- 28.6%Both didn't work
