Income and Poverty - Poverty rate, overall (2021) To resort data: click column headings. To download data: click here. Name Poverty rate Rank Poverty rate Louisiana 1 19.5% Mississippi 2 19.2% New Mexico 3 17.7% West Virginia 4 16.8% Kentucky 5 16.3% Alabama 6 16.3% Arkansas 7 16.0% Oklahoma 8 15.4% South Carolina 9 14.5% Texas 10 14.2% Georgia 11 14.2% Nevada 12 14.0% New York 13 14.0% Tennessee 14 13.7% North Carolina 15 13.5% Ohio 16 13.3% Florida 17 13.2% Michigan 18 13.0% Arizona 19 12.9% Missouri 20 12.8% California 21 12.3% Oregon 22 12.2% Rhode Island 23 12.1% Illinois 24 12.1% Indiana 25 12.1% Pennsylvania 26 12.0% Montana 27 12.0% South Dakota 28 11.9% Kansas 29 11.6% Delaware 30 11.5% Maine 31 11.2% Iowa 32 11.0% Hawaii 33 10.9% North Dakota 34 10.9% Idaho 35 10.8% Alaska 36 10.8% Wisconsin 37 10.8% Wyoming 38 10.6% Nebraska 39 10.5% Massachusetts 40 10.4% Maryland 41 10.3% Virginia 42 10.3% Vermont 43 10.2% New Jersey 44 10.2% Connecticut 45 10.1% Washington 46 9.9% Colorado 47 9.7% Minnesota 48 9.3% Utah 49 8.7% New Hampshire 50 7.4% Source: 1979: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Population and Housing, (https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/data/tables.1980.html); 1989-2021: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, (https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/saipe/#/?map_geoSelector=aa_c); DATE LAST UPDATED: April, 18, 2023.