US Counties With the Lowest Population for Whom Poverty Status Is Determined (Census ACS 5-year)

3,220 US counties ranked by population for whom poverty status is determined (census acs 5-year), from lowest to highest. First are Chattahoochee County, GA (520.10), Lexington city, VA (562.53) and Forest County, PA (647.90). The middle one of the 3,220 has 980.26.

What this measures

The people whose poverty status can be worked out, used as the base for the poverty rate. It leaves out people in institutions, military barracks and college dorms, so it is a little smaller than the population. Source: Census ACS 5-year.

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 lowest counties

Every state, lowest first

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

More on population for whom poverty status is determined (census acs 5-year)

• US Counties With the Highest Population for Whom Poverty Status Is Determined (Census ACS 5-year)
• Population for whom poverty status is determined (Census ACS 5-year) 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.