2005 Poorest City In The Nation: Cleveland Ohio

"Larger cities with the highest proportions of people in poverty in 2005 included Cleveland (32.4 percent) and Detroit (31.4 percent). Cities with the lowest percentages were Plano, Texas (6.3 percent) and Virginia Beach, Va. (7.4 percent). (The estimates for Cleveland and Detroit were not significantly different from each other. In addition, the estimates for Plano, Texas, and Virginia Beach, Va., were not significantly different from each other.)"

                         -US Census

 

 Poverty level" = $19,971 annual income (family of four)

                        $9,973 for an individual

 

 

link to report:  http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/007419.html

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