FINDING POVERTY RATES

Census Tract & Block Group

Finding Poverty Rates

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Finding Poverty Rates

WARNING: Other potential side effects may include:

Nausea Shiftiness in seats Glassy eyes Drooping eyelids Yawning

Finding Poverty Rates

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Increased paper work Further questions by U.S. Dept. of Housing &

Urban Development (HUD) staff

Increased requests to do this from peers that could not maintain wakefulness when you presented it several weeks ago.

Finding Poverty Rates Let’s begin

Finding Poverty Rates Navigate to www.census.gov

The page should look something like this – cluttered, useless and difficult navigate.

Finding Poverty Rates Navigate to the “Data” tab:

Finding Poverty Rates Navigate to the “Data Tools & Apps” tab:

Finding Poverty Rates After clicking on Data, navigate to,

“American Fact Finder”:

Finding Poverty Rates Now navigate to, “Advanced Search”:

Finding Poverty Rates Now navigate to, “Geographies”:

Finding Poverty Rates Now navigate to, “Address”

Enter your project address (e.g.: 3640 Investment Lane, West Palm Beach, FL 33402)

Finding Poverty Rates Now click:

“Census Tract” – 5th link down from top (Geography Code: 140)

“Block Group” – 6th link down from top (Geography Code: 150)

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Finding Poverty Rates

Finding Poverty Rates You should now see the selection in the

top left

Finding Poverty Rates Now click, “Close” on the pop-up:

Finding Poverty Rates Now click, “Topics” on the left margin:

Find, “People” and “Poverty”

Finding Poverty Rates Now click, “Close” on the pop-up You should now see the selection in the

top left

Finding Poverty Rates Now choose a table link

(I’ll use the 4th one down: ID - B17021)

Finding Poverty Rates The table displays:

Block Group (Group #5 in our example) Census Tract (10.04 in our example)

Finding Poverty Rates By Census Tract– the table displays:

Total number of individuals: 4,931 Total individuals with income below poverty:

1,457

Finding Poverty Rates Now we have to calculate the poverty rate for

the Census Tract:

4,931÷ 1,457 = Poverty Rate of 29.55%

Not done yet…need to get the poverty rate for the Block Group!

Finding Poverty Rates By Block Group – the table displays:

Total number of individuals: 699 Total individuals with income below poverty: 193

Finding Poverty Rates Now we have to calculate the poverty rate for

the Block Group:

193 ÷ 699 = Poverty Rate of 27.61%

Ta Da!

Finding Poverty Rates Questions? Concerns?

Feel free to call me (the author – Steve Misshula) at:

561-233-3619