US Counties With the Lowest Adult Income Rank of Children Raised Poor Here
3,208 US counties ranked by adult income rank of children raised poor here, from lowest to highest. First are Villalba Municipio, PR (0.213), Kusilvak Census Area, AK (0.216) and ComerÃo Municipio, PR (0.216). The middle one of the 3,208 has 0.42.
What this measures
Where children who grew up here with poor parents ended up as adults, ranked against everyone in the country by income, on a scale from 0 to 1. A value of 0.5 would mean that on average they reached the middle of the national income ladder. Source: Opportunity Atlas.
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 lowest counties
More on adult income rank of children raised poor here
- US Counties With the Highest Adult Income Rank of Children Raised Poor Here
- Adult income rank of children raised poor here 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.