Income and Poverty - Poverty rate, by age (2017) To resort data: click column headings. To download data: click here. Name Under 18 Rank Under 18 Louisiana 1 27.7% Mississippi 2 27.6% New Mexico 3 25.9% Alabama 4 24.4% West Virginia 5 24.4% Arkansas 6 22.5% South Carolina 7 22.3% Kentucky 8 22.1% Georgia 9 21.5% Oklahoma 10 21.3% Tennessee 11 21.1% Texas 12 21.0% Arizona 13 21.0% North Carolina 14 21.0% Florida 15 20.6% New York 16 19.9% Ohio 17 19.8% Michigan 18 19.6% Nevada 19 19.2% Missouri 20 18.5% Rhode Island 21 18.2% California 22 18.1% Indiana 23 17.8% Delaware 24 17.7% Illinois 25 17.0% Pennsylvania 26 16.9% Oregon 27 16.5% South Dakota 28 16.3% Montana 29 15.9% Idaho 30 14.8% Kansas 31 14.7% Wisconsin 32 14.6% Alaska 33 14.5% Maine 34 14.2% Washington 35 14.2% Virginia 36 14.0% New Jersey 37 13.8% Nebraska 38 13.7% Massachusetts 39 13.5% Connecticut 40 13.0% Wyoming 41 12.9% Vermont 42 12.8% Iowa 43 12.6% Maryland 44 12.4% Colorado 45 12.2% Hawaii 46 11.9% Minnesota 47 11.7% North Dakota 48 11.4% Utah 49 10.6% New Hampshire 50 10.0% 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 and 1999: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Population and Housing, American Factfinder, (http://factfinder2.census.gov/); 2000-2017: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, (http://www.census.gov//did/www/saipe/.); 2012-2017: U.S. Bureau of the Census, American Community Survey, American Factfinder, (http://factfinder2.census.gov); DATE LAST UPDATED: December 6, 2018.