Children Living Below 50% of Poverty - Maryland

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Children Living Below 50% of Poverty (Percent) – 2009-2011

Data Provided by: Advocates for Children and Youth

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Scale: 2.5% - 19.6%


Maryland	6.3%
Allegany	17.4%
Anne Arundel	4.0%
Baltimore City	19.6%
Baltimore County	5.3%
Calvert	2.5%
Caroline	4.2%
Carroll	3.5%
Cecil	7.4%
Charles	4.6%
Dorchester	15.5%
Frederick	2.9%
Garrett	8.2%
Harford	6.2%
Howard	2.8%
Kent	N/A
Montgomery	3.6%
Prince George's	4.9%
Queen Anne's	3.7%
Saint Mary's	5.8%
Somerset	12.4%
Talbot	4.2%
Washington	9.0%
Wicomico	11.5%
Worcester	6.7%

Definitions: The share of children under age 18 who live in families with incomes less than 50 percent of the federal poverty level, as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Data is available by County

Data Source: American Community Survey; 3 year estimates 2005-2011.

Footnotes: 3 year estimates were used due to sample sizes not available for smaller populations in the state at the ACS 1-year estimates level.

Maryland Grantee

Advocates for Children and Youth 8 Market Place
Suite 500
Baltimore, MD 21202

410-547-9200 x3012
APassarella@acy.org
http://www.acy.org

Al Passarella, Research Coordinator

ACY's mission is to identify problems, promote policies and programs that improve results for Maryland children in measurable and meaningful ways, and to evaluate the effectiveness of programs and policies for the children of Maryland.

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