Income and Poverty - Poverty rate, by age (2019) To resort data: click column headings. To download data: click here. Name Under 18 Rank Under 18 Mississippi 1 27.6% Louisiana 2 26.4% New Mexico 3 23.5% Alabama 4 21.9% Arkansas 5 21.7% Kentucky 6 20.9% West Virginia 7 20.8% South Carolina 8 19.9% Oklahoma 9 19.7% Georgia 10 19.5% Tennessee 11 19.4% North Carolina 12 19.3% Arizona 13 19.2% Texas 14 19.2% New York 15 18.2% Florida 16 18.2% Ohio 17 18.1% Nevada 18 17.6% Michigan 19 17.5% Missouri 20 17.0% Pennsylvania 21 16.5% Rhode Island 22 16.5% Delaware 23 16.3% California 24 15.6% Illinois 25 15.6% Montana 26 15.4% Indiana 27 15.1% South Dakota 28 14.9% Kansas 29 14.3% Maine 30 13.8% Oregon 31 13.6% Connecticut 32 13.5% Wisconsin 33 13.5% Virginia 34 13.3% Alaska 35 13.2% Iowa 36 12.8% Idaho 37 12.7% Maryland 38 12.3% New Jersey 39 12.2% Washington 40 12.0% Massachusetts 41 12.0% Wyoming 42 11.7% Nebraska 43 11.5% Hawaii 44 11.2% Colorado 45 11.2% Minnesota 46 11.0% North Dakota 47 10.9% Vermont 48 10.8% Utah 49 9.6% New Hampshire 50 8.1% 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/); 2000-2019: 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 8, 2020.