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  Census >ACS Home > Ranking Tables 2003 Index (Main) > ... People 65 Years and Over Below Poverty Level… (State Level)
Percent of People 65 Years and Over Below Poverty Level in the Past 12 Months
Population 65 years and over (State level)
Rank State Percent Lower Bound Upper Bound
 
United States
9.8
9.6
10.0
1 Mississippi 16.4 15.1 17.7
2 Louisiana 14.8 13.4 16.2
3 District of Columbia 14.4 12.5 16.3
4 Kentucky 14.2 12.7 15.6
5 Alabama 13.7 12.4 14.9
6 Georgia 13.3 12.5 14.1
7 New Mexico 13.1 11.4 14.7
8 Texas 13.0 12.2 13.8
9 Arkansas 12.9 11.6 14.1
9 North Carolina 12.9 11.2 14.5
11 West Virginia 12.7 11.2 14.3
12 North Dakota 12.6 8.8 16.5
13 Tennessee 12.4 11.0 13.7
14 South Carolina 12.1 10.3 14.0
15 New York 12.0 11.2 12.7
16 Oklahoma 11.3 9.3 13.2
17 South Dakota 10.8 9.0 12.5
18 Rhode Island 10.6 8.9 12.2
19 Missouri 10.4 8.8 11.9
20 Florida 9.6 9.0 10.2
21 Colorado 9.5 8.3 10.7
22 Illinois 9.4 8.6 10.2
22 Maine 9.4 7.8 11.1
22 Massachusetts 9.4 8.2 10.5
25 Nebraska 9.1 8.3 9.9
26 Virginia 9.0 8.2 9.9
27 New Hampshire 8.9 7.3 10.4
27 Vermont 8.9 7.1 10.7
29 Maryland 8.7 7.7 9.8
29 Pennsylvania 8.7 7.9 9.5
31 Michigan 8.4 7.5 9.2
31 Minnesota 8.4 7.2 9.6
31 Montana 8.4 7.0 9.7
34 Oregon 8.3 7.1 9.5
35 Ohio 8.1 7.4 8.9
36 Idaho 8.0 6.6 9.4
36 Nevada 8.0 6.0 10.0
38 Arizona 7.9 6.7 9.1
38 Kansas 7.9 6.9 8.8
40 California 7.6 7.1 8.1
40 Iowa 7.6 6.5 8.8
40 Utah 7.6 6.1 9.2
43 Hawaii 7.5 6.2 8.7
43 Indiana 7.5 6.7 8.3
45 Wisconsin 7.3 6.3 8.3
46 New Jersey 7.2 6.4 8.0
47 Washington 6.8 5.9 7.7
48 Delaware 6.2 4.9 7.5
48 Wyoming 6.2 5.1 7.2
50 Connecticut 5.4 4.4 6.3
51 Alaska 4.8 2.5 7.1

  
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2003 American Community Survey

Notes

The table above shows the margin of error, represented by the lower and upper bounds of the 90-percent confidence interval. The confidence interval gives a range of values likely to include the population true value.  The smaller the confidence interval the more precise the estimate of the characteristic of interest.

An "N" entry in the estimate, lower bound, and upper bound columns indicates that data for this geographic area cannot be displayed because the number of sample cases is too small.

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