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Data:
Latest news about poverty in Wilkes-Barre, PA collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations
Residents with income below the poverty level in 2009:
| Wilkes-Barre: | 31.9% | | Whole state: | 16.4% |
| Wilkes-Barre: | 8.4% | | Whole state: | 5.5% |
Breakdown by age of poor male residents in Wilkes-Barre (percentage below poverty level)
Breakdown by age of poor female residents in Wilkes-Barre (percentage below poverty level)
Breakdown by races of poor residents (income below poverty level) in Wilkes-Barre in percentages
Breakdown by races of poor residents in Wilkes-Barre in absolute numbers
Poor families by family type
- Married-couple family (32.5%)
- Male, no wife present (9.4%)
- Female, no husband present (58.0%)
Breakdown by age of very poor residents in Wilkes-Barre, PA (percentage below half of poverty level)
Poverty status for native-born residents
- Below poverty level (19.2%)
- Above poverty level (80.8%)
Poverty status for foreign-born residents
- Below poverty level (50.6%)
- Above poverty level (49.4%)
Children below poverty level:
| Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: | 29.7% | | State: | 16.8% |
| Wilkes-Barre: | 26.3% | | Pennsylvania: | 18.9% |
| Wilkes-Barre: | 41.1% | | Pennsylvania: | 36.4% |
Breakdown of poor residents in Wilkes-Barre not in families by work experience
- Worked full-time, year-round (1%)
- Worked part-time (34%)
- Did not work (65%)
Breakdown of poor married-couple families by work experience
- Both worked full-time (1%)
- One full-time, other part-time (4%)
- One full-time, other didn't work (23%)
- Both worked part-time (16%)
- One part-time, other didn't work (25%)
- Both didn't work (31%)
Year house/condo built by year for residents below and above poverty levels in percentages
Poverty rate among disabled males:
| Wilkes-Barre: | 20.9% | | Pennsylvania: | 14.4% |
24.0% among residents who are not classified as poor):
| Wilkes-Barre: | 35.0% | | Pennsylvania: | 14.4% |
| Wilkes-Barre: | 26.3% | | Pennsylvania: | 19.4% |
25.0% among residents who are not classified as poor):
| Wilkes-Barre: | 38.6% | | Pennsylvania: | 19.4% |
| Residents below poverty level: | 76.3% | | Residents above poverty level: | 39.8% |
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