Income and Poverty - Poverty rate, by age (2018) To resort data: click column headings. To download data: click here. Name Under 18 Rank Under 18 Mississippi 1 28.2% Louisiana 2 26.5% New Mexico 3 25.3% Alabama 4 23.9% Arkansas 5 23.8% West Virginia 6 23.2% Kentucky 7 22.3% South Carolina 8 22.1% Tennessee 9 21.8% Oklahoma 10 21.4% Texas 11 21.1% Georgia 12 21.0% Arizona 13 20.4% North Carolina 14 20.2% Florida 15 20.0% Michigan 16 19.3% Ohio 17 19.2% New York 18 18.8% Nevada 19 18.4% Missouri 20 18.3% Rhode Island 21 18.0% Delaware 22 17.6% Indiana 23 17.5% California 24 17.4% Pennsylvania 25 16.7% Montana 26 16.4% Illinois 27 16.2% South Dakota 28 16.1% Oregon 29 15.7% Kansas 30 14.8% Maine 31 14.8% Alaska 32 14.5% Idaho 33 14.2% Wisconsin 34 14.1% Connecticut 35 13.8% Virginia 36 13.8% Iowa 37 13.5% New Jersey 38 13.5% Wyoming 39 13.1% Nebraska 40 12.9% Washington 41 12.6% Massachusetts 42 12.4% Vermont 43 12.2% Maryland 44 12.1% Colorado 45 12.1% Hawaii 46 11.8% Minnesota 47 11.5% North Dakota 48 11.0% New Hampshire 49 10.1% Utah 50 9.7% 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/); 2000-2018: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, (https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/saipe/#/?map_geoSelector=aa_c); 2012-2018: U.S. Bureau of the Census, American Community Survey, (https://data.census.gov/cedsci/); DATE LAST UPDATED: December 19, 2019.