US Counties With the Highest Population for Whom Poverty Status Is Determined (Census SAIPE)

3,141 US counties ranked by population for whom poverty status is determined (census saipe), from highest to lowest. First are Petroleum County, MT (1381.17), Yakutat City and Borough, AK (1356.26) and Daggett County, UT (1321.07). The middle one of the 3,141 has 979.37.

What this measures

The people whose poverty status is worked out, used as the base for the poverty rate. It is calculated back from the poverty count and the poverty rate. Source: Census SAIPE.

This is a count, so it is ranked per 1,000 residents. Ranked by the raw total, it would just list the biggest counties.

For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.

The 100 highest counties

Every state, highest first

Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.

More on population for whom poverty status is determined (census saipe)

• US Counties With the Lowest Population for Whom Poverty Status Is Determined (Census SAIPE)
• Population for whom poverty status is determined (Census SAIPE) by US county: map by year and what it goes with

A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.