| Percentage of Families Living in Poverty, 2021 | ||
| by Metro Area | ||
| Rank | Area | Percentage of families with income below the poverty level |
| 1 | San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR Metro Area | 33.2% |
| 2 | New Orleans-Metairie, LA Metro Area | 14.6% |
| 3 | Memphis, TN-MS-AR Metro Area | 12.8% |
| 4 | Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV Metro Area | 11.7% |
| 5 | Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX Metro Area | 11.2% |
| 6 | Oklahoma City, OK Metro Area | 10.3% |
| 7 | Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL Metro Area | 10.1% |
| 8 | San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area | 10.1% |
| 9 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metro Area | 9.8% |
| 10 | Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metro Area | 9.8% |
| 11 | Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metro Area | 9.8% |
| 12 | Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area | 9.8% |
| 13 | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area | 9.6% |
| 14 | Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY Metro Area | 9.6% |
| 15 | Cleveland-Elyria, OH Metro Area | 9.4% |
| 16 | Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area | 8.9% |
| 17 | Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Metro Area | 8.9% |
| 18 | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA Metro Area | 8.8% |
| 19 | Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN Metro Area | 8.8% |
| 20 | Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI Metro Area | 8.7% |
| 21 | Columbus, OH Metro Area | 8.5% |
| 22 | Jacksonville, FL Metro Area | 8.5% |
| 23 | Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI Metro Area | 8.4% |
| 24 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area | 8.4% |
| 25 | Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN Metro Area | 8.0% |
| 26 | Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ Metro Area | 7.9% |
| 27 | Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Metro Area | 7.9% |
| 28 | Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC Metro Area | 7.9% |
| 29 | Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro Area | 7.8% |
| 30 | Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metro Area | 7.8% |
| 31 | Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA Metro Area | 7.7% |
| 32 | Pittsburgh, PA Metro Area | 7.5% |
| 33 | Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN Metro Area | 7.5% |
| 34 | San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Metro Area | 7.3% |
| 35 | St. Louis, MO-IL Metro Area | 7.3% |
| 36 | Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN Metro Area | 7.1% |
| 37 | Richmond, VA Metro Area | 6.9% |
| 38 | Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX Metro Area | 6.6% |
| 39 | Kansas City, MO-KS Metro Area | 6.6% |
| 40 | Raleigh-Cary, NC Metro Area | 6.6% |
| 41 | Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro Area | 6.4% |
| 42 | Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metro Area | 6.4% |
| 43 | Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT Metro Area | 6.3% |
| 44 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Area | 6.1% |
| 45 | Salt Lake City, UT Metro Area | 5.9% |
| 46 | San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA Metro Area | 5.8% |
| 47 | Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metro Area | 5.4% |
| 48 | Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metro Area | 5.3% |
| 49 | Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro Area | 4.8% |
| 50 | San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro Area | 4.6% |
| Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2021 American Community Survey | ||
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