New American Community Survey Statistics for Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Available for States and Local Areas
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Many states saw an increase in income and a decrease in poverty rates between 2015 and 2016. During that same period, the percentage of people covered by health insurance increased in most of the largest 25 metropolitan areas. The findings are from the
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Below are some of the local-level income, poverty and health insurance statistics from the
Income
* Between 2015 and 2016, 30 states showed an increase in real median household income.
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* Median household income was lower than the
* Median household income increased in 21 of the 25 most populous metropolitan areas between 2015 and 2016. Median household income did not decline in any of the 25 most populous metropolitan areas.
* For all metropolitan statistical areas, the median household income in 2016 was
* Among the 25 most populous metropolitan areas, the
Income Inequality
* The Gini index is a standard economic measure of income inequality. A score of 0.0 is perfect equality in income distribution. A score of 1.0 indicates total inequality where one household has all of the income.
* Five states, (
* Most states experienced no statistical change in income inequality. Income inequality increased in three states (
Poverty
* Between 2015 and 2016, poverty rates declined in 24 states. The poverty rate increased in
* States with poverty rates of 18.0 percent or higher included: the
* From 2015 to 2016, the poverty rate decreased in 17 of the 25 most populous metropolitan areas. Poverty did not increase in any of the 25 most populous metropolitan areas.
* In 2016, the health insurance coverage rate was 91.6 percent for the population living inside metropolitan areas and 90.5 percent for the population living outside metropolitan areas.
* Between 2015 and 2016, the health insurance coverage rate increased by 0.8 percentage points for the population living inside metropolitan areas and by 0.7 percentage points for the population living outside metropolitan areas, which were not statistically different. In 2016, the
* Between 2015 and 2016, the percentage of people covered by health insurance increased in 19 of the 25 most populous metropolitan areas. The change in the rate of coverage ranged from 0.5 percentage points to 1.7 percentage points. The remaining 6 most populous metro areas showed no significant change.
* Between 2013 and 2016,
* National and state-level health insurance data (https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/income-povery.html) from the
Additional Topics and Findings Released Today From the
New Language Code Tables
The percentage of the nation's population age 5 and older speaking a language other than English at home was 21.6 percent in 2016.
New language data shows Spanish was by far the largest non-English language in 2016, spoken at home by 40.5 million people, or 13.3 percent of the population age 5 and older, followed by Chinese with nearly 3.4 million speakers at home and Tagalog with 1.7 million speakers at home.
Languages are grouped in the American FactFinder (https://factfinder.census.gov/) tool in the revised Table B16001 (https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/16_1YR/B16001) that tabulates languages based on the top 42 language categories (https://www.census.gov/topics/population/language-use/about.html). New language data is now available for Haitian, Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu and Tamil. They previously fell under the "French Creole," "Other Indic languages" and "Other Asian languages" categories.
New Data Exploration Platform
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New Data Visualization Tools
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The ACS Data Wheel (https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/acs-datawheel.html) allows users to explore ACS data for all 50 states.
The Data Wheel Dashboard (https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/acs-datamap.html) includes a bar graph and map of the
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These statistics would not be possible without the participation of the randomly selected households throughout the country in the survey.
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