Albuquerque has the highest rate of non-working parents whose children are in poverty, and the highest divorce rate among peer Southwest cities.

INDICATORS

• 6.1 Children in Poverty Where No Parent is Working
• 6.2 Percent of Divorced Persons

  LOCAL TREND:

Albuquerque's rate of children who are in poverty and who also lack an employed parent had declined strikingly over the recent past. The rate of unemployed parents whose children are in poverty dropped from 35% to just over 20% from 2004 to 2006, but increased back to near 2004 levels in 2007. Albuquerque's percent of divorced individuals has declined since 2004.

  NATIONAL/REGIONAL COMPARISON:

Albuquerque has the second lowest rate of children in poverty without a parent who works, compared to peer Southwest cities. However, Albuquerque has the highest rate of divorced individuals in the Southwest. Since the divorce rate indicator is measuring those divorced adults that have not remarried, it is unclear if Albuquerque's divorce rate is high because couples are getting divorced in large numbers or if it means Albuquerque has a large number of divorced individuals who have chosen not to remarry.

  CITIZEN PERCEPTION:

Albuquerque citizens rated this Desired Community Condition as being one of the most important conditions to achieve, while simultaneously being a condition where insufficient progress has been made. Regardless of demographic, citizens felt that this condition was important and reported that additional progress was needed in this area.

Opportunity to Continue to Improve	LOCAL TREND IS:	Mixed
	ALBUQUERQUE, COMPARED TO OTHERS, IS:	Mixed
	CITIZEN PERCEPTION COMPARED TO DATA:	Matches

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