US Counties With the Lowest Child Poverty Rate, Ages 0-17
3,142 US counties ranked by child poverty rate, ages 0-17, from lowest to highest. First are Douglas County, CO (3.1%), Los Alamos County, NM (3.4%) and Ozaukee County, WI (3.7%). The middle one of the 3,142 has 17.9%.
What this measures
The percentage of children under 18 in poverty. It is an estimate from a statistical model, combining survey answers with tax and food-assistance records. Source: Census SAIPE.
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
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Hampshire | 8.2% |
| 2 | Utah | 9.2% |
| 3 | North Dakota | 10.1% |
| 4 | Minnesota | 10.2% |
| 5 | Vermont | 10.2% |
| 6 | Colorado | 10.9% |
| 7 | Nebraska | 11.1% |
| 8 | Idaho | 11.3% |
| 9 | Maryland | 11.3% |
| 10 | Hawaii | 11.8% |
| 11 | Wyoming | 12% |
| 12 | Washington | 12.1% |
| 13 | Alaska | 12.5% |
| 14 | Maine | 12.6% |
| 15 | Massachusetts | 12.7% |
| 16 | Virginia | 12.7% |
| 17 | Montana | 12.8% |
| 18 | New Jersey | 12.8% |
| 19 | Wisconsin | 12.8% |
| 20 | Iowa | 13% |
| 21 | Connecticut | 13% |
| 22 | Kansas | 13.1% |
| 23 | South Dakota | 13.5% |
| 24 | Oregon | 13.6% |
| 25 | Illinois | 14.7% |
| 26 | Missouri | 14.7% |
| 27 | California | 15% |
| 28 | Indiana | 15.1% |
| 29 | Rhode Island | 15.1% |
| 30 | Delaware | 15.4% |
| 31 | Pennsylvania | 15.5% |
| 32 | Arizona | 15.8% |
| 33 | Florida | 16% |
| 34 | Nevada | 16.4% |
| 35 | Michigan | 17.5% |
| 36 | North Carolina | 17.5% |
| 37 | Ohio | 17.5% |
| 38 | Texas | 18.4% |
| 39 | New York | 18.6% |
| 40 | Georgia | 18.8% |
| 41 | South Carolina | 18.8% |
| 42 | Tennessee | 18.9% |
| 43 | West Virginia | 19.6% |
| 44 | Kentucky | 20.2% |
| 45 | Arkansas | 20.2% |
| 46 | Oklahoma | 20.5% |
| 47 | District of Columbia | 20.7% |
| 48 | Alabama | 21.3% |
| 49 | New Mexico | 22.6% |
| 50 | Mississippi | 24.3% |
| 51 | Louisiana | 25.2% |
More on child poverty rate, ages 0-17
- US Counties With the Highest Child Poverty Rate, Ages 0-17
- Child poverty rate, ages 0-17 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.