Distressed Counties and Parishes

To be deemed distressed, counties and parishes must meet one of the following criteria:

An unemployment rate of one percent higher (7.2 percent) than the national average (6.2 percent) for the most recent 24-month period; or
Have a per capita income of 80 percent or less of the national per capita income.

FY 2017 Distressed Counties and Parishes

Alabama
Barbour Bullock Butler Choctaw Clarke Conecuh Dallas	Escambia Greene Hale Lowndes Macon Marengo Monroe	Perry Pickens Russell Sumter Washington Wilcox
Arkansas
Ashley Baxter Bradley Calhoun Chicot Clay Cleveland Craighead Crittenden Cross Dallas Desha Drew	Fulton Grant Greene Independence Izard Jackson Jefferson Lawrence Lee Lincoln Lonoke Marion Mississippi	Monroe Ouachita Phillips Poinsett Prairie Randolph Searcy Sharp St. Francis Stone Van Buren White Woodruff
Illinois
Alexander Franklin Gallatin Hardin Jackson	Johnson Massac Perry Pope Pulaski	Randolph Saline Union Williamson
Kentucky
Ballard Caldwell Calloway Carlisle Christian Crittenden Fulton	Graves Henderson Hickman Hopkins Livingston Lyon McLean	Marshall Muhlenberg Todd Trigg Union Webster
Louisiana
Acadia Allen Assumption Avoyelles Beauregard Bienville Caldwell Catahoula Claiborne Concordia De Soto East Carroll East Feliciana Evangeline Franklin Grant	Iberia Iberville Jackson Jefferson Davis La Salle Lincoln Livingston Madison Morehouse Natchitoches Orleans Ouachita Pointe Coupee Rapides Red River Richland	St. Bernard St. Helena St. James St. John the Baptist St. Landry St. Martin St. Mary Tangipahoa Tensas Union Vermillion Washington Webster West Carroll West Feliciana Winn
Mississippi
Adams Amite Attala Benton Bolivar Carroll Claiborne Coahoma Copiah Covington DeSoto Franklin Grenada Hinds Holmes	Humphreys Issaquena Jasper Jefferson Jefferson Davis Lafayette Lawrence Leflore Lincoln Marion Marshall Montgomery Panola Pike Quitman	Sharkey Simpson Smith Sunflower Tallahatchie Tate Tippah Tunica Union Walthall Warren Washington Wilkinson Yalobusha Yazoo
Missouri
Bollinger Butler Carter Crawford Dent Douglas Dunklin Howell Iron Madison	Mississippi New Madrid Oregon Ozark Pemiscot Perry Phelps Reynolds Ripley	Scott Shannon Ste. Genevieve St. Francois Stoddard Texas Washington Wayne Wright
Tennessee
Benton Carroll Chester Crockett Decatur Dyer Gibson	Hardeman Hardin Haywood Henderson Henry Lake Lauderdale	Madison McNairy Obion Shelby Tipton Weakley

FY 2017 Non-Distressed Counties and Parishes

Union

Alabama
All counties in Alabama are designated as distressed.
Arkansas
Arkansas	Pulaski	Union
Illinois
Hamilton	White
Kentucky
McCracken
Louisiana
Ascension Cameron East Baton Rouge	Jefferson Lafourche Plaquemines	St. Charles West Baton Rouge
Mississippi
Madison	Rankin
Missouri
Cape Girardeau
Tennessee
Fayette