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Residents with income below the poverty level in 2007:
| Lake Charles: |  23.3% | | Whole state: |  18.6% |
Residents with income below 50% of the poverty level in 2007:
| Lake Charles: | 7.6% | | Whole state: | 7.8% |
Breakdown by age of poor male residents in Lake Charles (percentage below poverty level)
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Breakdown by age of poor female residents in Lake Charles (percentage below poverty level)
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Breakdown by races of poor residents (income below poverty level) in Lake Charles in percentages
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Breakdown by races of poor residents in Lake Charles in absolute numbers
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Poor families by family type
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- Married-couple family (25.6%)
- Male, no wife present (6.9%)
- Female, no husband present (67.5%)
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Breakdown by age of very poor residents in Lake Charles, LA (percentage below half of poverty level)
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Poverty status for native-born residents
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- Below poverty level (23.7%)
- Above poverty level (76.3%)
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Poverty status for foreign-born residents
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- Below poverty level (2.9%)
- Above poverty level (97.1%)
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Children below poverty level:
| Lake Charles, Louisiana: | 31.1% | | State: | 26.4% |
Poverty rate among high school graduates not in families:
| Lake Charles: | 23.4% | | Louisiana: | 24.3% |
Poverty rate among people who did not graduate high school not in families:
| Lake Charles: | 45.5% | | Louisiana: | 51.2% |
Breakdown of poor residents in Lake Charles not in families by work experience
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- Worked full-time, year-round (4%)
- Worked part-time (36%)
- Did not work (60%)
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Breakdown of poor married-couple families by work experience
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- Both worked full-time (1%)
- One full-time, other part-time (7%)
- One full-time, other didn't work (13%)
- Both worked part-time (17%)
- One part-time, other didn't work (16%)
- Both didn't work (46%)
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Year house/condo built by year for residents below and above poverty levels in percentages
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Poverty rate among disabled males:
| Lake Charles: | 22.1% | | Louisiana: | 21.4% |
Disability rate in this city among poor males (it is 21.0% among residents who are not classified as poor):
| Lake Charles: | 32.1% | | Louisiana: | 21.4% |
Poverty rate among disabled females:
| Lake Charles: | 28.8% | | Louisiana: | 28.2% |
Disability rate in this city among poor females (it is 21.0% among residents who are not classified as poor):
| Lake Charles: | 31.9% | | Louisiana: | 28.2% |
Renting rate in this city among poor and not poor residents:
| Residents below poverty level: | 72.1% | | Residents above poverty level: | 34.9% |
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