The Marriage Measures Guide of State-Level Statistics: Appendix A: Additional Statistics

	Population Size		Births to Unmarried Women		Low-Income Children
State Name	Number of People (in 1,000s)	State Rank	Percentage of Births to Unmarried Women	State Rank	Number of Low-Income Children (in 1,000s)	Percentage of All Children
Alabama	4,599	23	36.2	20	510	45.6
Alaska	670	47	34.6	28	51	29.1
Arizona	6,166	16	42.2	5	719	44.5
Arkansas	2,811	32	38.8	10	343	49.9
California	36,458	1	34.4	29	3,887	40.8
Colorado	4,753	22	27.5	47	410	35.2
Connecticut	3,505	29	30.6	40	200	24.7
Delaware	853	45	42.3	4	63	30.8
Florida	18,090	4	41.4	7	1,641	41.0
Georgia	9,364	9	39.2	9	1,026	42.1
Hawaii	1,285	42	33.4	32	97	32.3
Idaho	1,466	39	22.6	49	164	41.8
Illinois	12,832	5	36.3	19	1,153	35.8
Indiana	6,314	15	38.8	11	605	38.3
Iowa	2,982	30	31.0	38	240	34.2
Kansas	2,764	33	33.0	33	261	37.8
Kentucky	4,206	26	35.0	26	421	42.7
Louisiana	4,288	25	49.1	1	528	49.2
Maine	1,322	40	34.1	31	107	38.7
Maryland	5,616	19	35.7	22	333	24.6
Massachusetts	6,437	13	28.5	46	376	26.0
Michigan	10,096	8	35.7	23	920	37.3
Minnesota	5,167	21	29.0	45	358	28.7
Mississippi	2,911	31	48.3	3	409	53.5
Missouri	5,843	18	37.0	17	595	41.7
Montana	945	44	34.3	30	91	42.3
Nebraska	1,768	38	30.2	42	172	38.7
Nevada	2,496	35	39.7	8	234	36.9
New Hampshire	1,315	41	26.4	48	66	22.5
New Jersey	8,725	11	30.1	43	535	25.6
New Mexico	1,955	36	48.8	2	264	52.5
New York	19,306	3	37.8	14	1,741	38.7
North Carolina	8,857	10	36.9	18	940	43.7
North Dakota	636	48	29.9	44	51	36.1
Ohio	11,478	7	37.4	15	1,073	38.7
Oklahoma	3,579	28	38.4	12	424	47.9
Oregon	3,701	27	32.5	34	335	39.1
Pennsylvania	12,441	6	35.2	24	1,035	36.9
Rhode Island	1,068	43	37.3	16	77	32.8
South Carolina	4,321	24	41.9	6	460	44.6
South Dakota	782	46	35.1	25	75	38.4
Tennessee	6,039	17	38.2	13	665	46.1
Texas	23,508	2	36.0	21	3,157	48.7
Utah	2,550	34	17.5	50	293	37.0
Vermont	624	49	32.3	35	40	30.5
Virginia	7,643	12	31.0	39	544	30.2
Washington	6,396	14	30.4	41	538	35.1
West Virginia	1,818	37	34.8	27	184	47.4
Wisconsin	5,557	20	31.3	37	438	33.1
Wyoming	515	50	31.7	36	42	34.6
United States	298,817	---	35.8	---	28,892	39.3

Source: 2006 American Community Survey (ACS) for population size and low-income children. National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) for births to unmarried women.

Notes: Low-income children are defined as those living in families with incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level.

	Number of Low-Income Children By Geographic Area (in 1,000s)		Number of Low-Income Children By Race/Ethnicity (in 1,000s)
Region Name	Rural Areas	Urban Areas	White	African American	Hispanic	Other
New England	154	712	478	112	202	74
Middle Atlantic	364	2,947	1,404	787	838	282
South Atlantic	1,190	4,002	1,981	1,978	945	288
Mountain	219	1,998	873	100	1,019	225
Pacific	191	4,716	1,089	369	2,877	572
East North Central	800	3,389	2,234	1,095	637	223
West North Central	575	1,178	1,113	267	201	172
East South Central	973	1,032	1,069	760	103	72
West South Central	750	3,702	1,225	910	2,071	246
United States	5,216	23,676	11467	6378	8894	2153

Source: 2006 American Community Survey (ACS).

Notes: Low-Income children are defined as those living in families with incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. See Technical Appendix for definitions of regions, geographic areas, and racial/ethnic groups.

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