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Children in Poverty (Percent) – 2011

Data Provided by: Agenda for Children

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Scale: 15% - 55%


Louisiana	29%
Acadia	28%
Allen	28%
Ascension	15%
Assumption	26%
Avoyelles	34%
Beauregard	24%
Bienville	38%
Bossier	21%
Caddo	33%
Calcasieu	26%
Caldwell	30%
Cameron	18%
Catahoula	37%
Claiborne	36%
Concordia	41%
De Soto	27%
East Baton Rouge	29%
East Carroll	54%
East Feliciana	28%
Evangeline	34%
Franklin	43%
Grant	28%
Iberia	30%
Iberville	30%
Jackson	29%
Jefferson	28%
Jefferson Davis	28%
La Salle	23%
Lafayette	21%
Lafourche	23%
Lincoln	32%
Livingston	17%
Madison	55%
Morehouse	41%
Natchitoches	40%
Orleans	42%
Ouachita	41%
Plaquemines	16%
Pointe Coupee	33%
Rapides	32%
Red River	37%
Richland	37%
Sabine	26%
St. Bernard	29%
St. Charles	18%
St. Helena	39%
St. James	28%
St. John the Baptist	25%
St. Landry	36%
St. Martin	33%
St. Mary	27%
St. Tammany	16%
Tangipahoa	35%
Tensas	49%
Terrebonne	28%
Union	38%
Vermilion	26%
Vernon	21%
Washington	40%
Webster	32%
West Baton Rouge	23%
West Carroll	34%
West Feliciana	20%
Winn	33%

Definitions: Estimated number and percentage of related children under age 18 living in families with incomes less than the federal poverty threshold.

Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division, Small Area Estimates Branch, Washington D.C.

Footnotes: Please use caution in interpreting poverty trends from year to year, as the methodology and data sources used to produce poverty estimates changed significantly, beginning with the release of the 2005 poverty estimates. For more information, visit http://www.census.gov//did/www/saipe/index.html.

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