Cuyahoga County Council Districts

Persons and Poverty

	District 1	District 2	District 3	District 4	District 5	District 6	District 7	District 8	District 9	District 10	District 11	County Total
Persons for whom poverty status determined, 1999	128,228	123,778	124,248	129,377	112,546	118,471	116,621	134,676	127,757	125,176	124,781	1,365,658
Persons living below poverty, 1999	4,103	9,978	29,180	6,872	3,180	4,487	38,367	32,649	17,434	24,870	8,252	179,372
Poverty rate, 1999	3.2%	8.1%	23.5%	5.3%	2.8%	3.8%	32.9%	24.2%	13.6%	19.9%	6.6%	13.1%
Children for whom poverty status determined, 1999	29,879	27,506	35,092	27,122	27,073	28,155	33,100	40,222	32,631	33,412	27,965	342,156
Children (aged 0-17) living below poverty, 1999	915	3,083	12,003	1,972	649	1,086	15,302	14,336	6,635	9,335	1,998	67,314
Child poverty rate, 1999	3.1%	11.2%	34.2%	7.3%	2.4%	3.9%	46.2%	35.6%	20.3%	27.9%	7.1%	19.7%
Persons with income below 50% of poverty, number, 1999	1,573	4,239	14,057	2,659	1,477	2,039	20,333	18,231	8,645	12,087	3,269	88,609
Persons with income below 50% of poverty, percent, 1999	1.2%	3.4%	11.3%	2.1%	1.3%	1.7%	17.4%	13.5%	6.8%	9.7%	2.6%	6.5%
Persons with income below 125% of poverty, number, 1999	6,080	13,731	37,156	9,794	4,755	6,686	47,919	40,360	22,560	31,377	11,423	231,842
Persons with income below 125% of poverty, percent, 1999	4.7%	11.1%	29.9%	7.6%	4.2%	5.6%	41.1%	30.0%	17.7%	25.1%	9.2%	17.0%
Persons with income below 150% of poverty, number, 1999	8,596	18,361	44,589	13,551	7,244	8,904	56,399	48,090	28,101	37,753	14,862	286,451
Persons with income below 150% of poverty, percent, 1999	6.7%	14.8%	35.9%	10.5%	6.4%	7.5%	48.4%	35.7%	22.0%	30.2%	11.9%	21.0%
Persons with income below 185% of poverty, number, 1999	12,635	24,799	55,608	20,494	10,676	12,871	65,541	57,602	35,515	46,729	20,744	363,215
Persons with income below 185% of poverty, percent, 1999	9.9%	20.0%	44.8%	15.8%	9.5%	10.9%	56.2%	42.8%	27.8%	37.3%	16.6%	26.6%
Persons with income below 200% of poverty, number, 1999	15,081	27,611	59,786	23,315	12,547	14,822	68,840	61,800	39,313	50,381	23,772	397,268
Persons with income below 200% of poverty, percent, 1999	11.8%	22.3%	48.1%	18.0%	11.1%	12.5%	59.0%	45.9%	30.8%	40.2%	19.1%	29.1%
Persons with income at or above 200% of poverty, number, 1999	113,147	96,167	64,462	106,062	99,999	103,649	47,781	72,876	88,443	74,795	101,009	968,390
Persons with income at or above 200% of poverty, percent, 1999	88.2%	77.7%	51.9%	82.0%	88.9%	87.5%	41.0%	54.1%	69.2%	59.8%	80.9%	70.9%

Prepared by the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission from U.S. Census data provided by NEO CANDO, Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, MSASS, Case Western Reserve University