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QT-P35. Poverty Status in 1999 of Families and Nonfamily Householders:  2000
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data
Geographic Area: United States

NOTE: Data based on a sample except in P3, P4, H3, and H4. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, definitions, and count corrections see http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/datanotes/expsf3.htm.


Poverty Status


Number


Percent
below
poverty
level


All
income
levels


Below
poverty
level

 

 

 

 

Families

72,261,780

6,620,945

9.2

With related children under 18 years

38,000,727

5,155,866

13.6

With related children under 5 years

15,076,246

2,562,263

17.0

Householder worked in 1999

56,725,649

3,567,254

6.3

Full-time, year-round

40,554,985

1,023,334

2.5

Householder 65 years and over

12,007,334

650,048

5.4

Family received:

 

 

 

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and/or public assistance income in 1999

5,185,301

1,693,815

32.7

Social Security income in 1999

16,249,897

990,001

6.1

Mean income deficit (dollars)

7,247

(X)

(X)

 

 

 

 

Married-couple families

55,458,451

2,719,059

4.9

With related children under 18 years

26,898,972

1,767,368

6.6

With related children under 5 years

11,096,285

948,229

8.5

Householder worked in 1999

44,242,503

1,423,095

3.2

Full-time, year-round

32,940,684

527,191

1.6

Householder 65 years and over

9,698,675

396,392

4.1

Family received:

 

 

 

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and/or public assistance income in 1999

2,551,986

463,275

18.2

Social Security income in 1999

12,698,078

523,315

4.1

Mean income deficit (dollars)

6,946

(X)

(X)

 

 

 

 

Families with female householder, no husband present

12,500,761

3,315,916

26.5

With related children under 18 years

8,575,028

2,940,459

34.3

With related children under 5 years

3,020,412

1,401,493

46.4

Householder worked in 1999

8,993,122

1,818,934

20.2

Full-time, year-round

5,198,379

398,162

7.7

Householder 65 years and over

1,842,954

213,312

11.6

Family received:

 

 

 

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and/or public assistance income in 1999

2,252,800

1,130,692

50.2

Social Security income in 1999

2,710,494

385,458

14.2

Mean income deficit (dollars)

7,562

(X)

(X)

 

 

 

 

Nonfamily householder

33,277,342

5,783,292

17.4

Below 150 percent of poverty level

9,629,327

(X)

(X)

 

 

 

 

Families below:

 

 

 

150 percent of poverty level

11,703,323

(X)

(X)

185 percent of poverty level

15,655,286

(X)

(X)

With related children under 18 years

11,379,795

(X)

(X)

With related children under 5 years

5,413,720

(X)

(X)

(X) Not applicable.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrices P90, P91, P92, P93, PCT59, PCT60, and PCT61.