Youth and young adults ages 14 to 24 who live in low-income families in the United States
Youth and young adults ages 14 to 24 who live in low-income families
Definitions:
Youth and young adults ages 14 to 24 living in families whose income was less than twice the federal poverty level.
The federal poverty definition consists of a series of thresholds based on family size and composition. In 2020, a 200% poverty threshold for a family of two adults and two children was $52,492. Poverty status is not determined for people in military barracks, institutional quarters, or for unrelated individuals under age 15 (such as foster children).
Data Source: Population Reference Bureau analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 2006-2010 through 2016-2020 American Community Survey.
Footnotes:
Updated November 2022.
S - Estimates suppressed when the confidence interval around the percentage is greater than or equal to 10 percentage points.
N.A. – Data not available.
A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at Youth and young adults ages 14 to 24 who live in low-income families.