Talk:List of lowest-income counties in the United States

2005 comments
Source? Cburnett 07:40, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

How about poorest in comparison to cost of living? The Stub Maker - 7/27/2005 10:57 EST

Various comments
30Dec2020 - Please give consideration to expanding lists to include state names, not just flags, as readers from outside the US have to look up every state flag individually in order to have the list make sense. Thx.
 * Agreed. I just reverted it back to the version with state names.  The flags are pretty, but I'm from the US and don't even know what my own state flag looks like much less any of the other states.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.187.238.161 (talk) 04:45, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I think Benton Harbor should be added in the list too. Their per-capital is less then 9000 Chaldean 17:54, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
 * But Benton Harbor, Michigan is a city not a county. I thought five California counties: Alpine, Inyo, Mono, Trinity and Imperial would fall into the category of the 100 poorest list, except they are the state's poorest counties. The poverty rate in Imperial County is over 25% above national average, the other four counties are less than 10% and these are rural areas (but Imperial County in the Cal. desert and Mexican border areas has the most people) with little or no economic infrastructure. But poverty rates in rural parts of Cal. aren't as severe although the Sierras and Deserts are generally have more low-income by percentage, and the majority of residents aren't classified in the official poverty range. + 71.102.53.48 (talk) 11:11, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

More current data available from Census Bureau -- latest county file (as of 2009/09/22) is for 2007 data, released in 2008. If I have time, I'll update the table -- but whoever made the map would have to update it OR tell me where to find software to make a similar one.

List needs updated?
Note: The list is no longer correct. I did a quick look and the WIKI link for Concordia Parish, LA shows that it should be near the top, but it is no where on the list. I don't know who owns this? There should be a huge RED FLAG AT THE TOP OF THE LIST POINTING OUT THIS ERROR. 8/26/2016 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.176.156.149 (talk) 13:58, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
 * The WP article for Concordia is what looks like needs to be updated. According to bea.gov, the parish's per capita income is over $30K. Farolif (talk) 14:13, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

As I noted here, Buffalo County isn't the poorest any more (Ziebach County, South Dakota is).

Without looking through this discussion page's history, I can't tell who added the note about 2007 data. Since I don't have current data for the other 99 counties' rankings, I'm not going to change the list, of course. --Fustigate314159 (talk) 03:52, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree, unless you have a good reference for all of the counties?Editfromwithout (talk) 05:04, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Why are there two lists for "100 Poorest Counties by Median Household Income"?
One of the lists says 2010 (with Buffalo County as the poorest) and the other one (with Kalawao County, Hawai'i as the poorest) doesn't have a year attached to it at all. I tried to check the references but I couldn't find the statistics. This needs to be clarified.Editfromwithout (talk) 05:13, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Removed the newer version 72.244.200.168 (talk) 22:24, 23 May 2013 (UTC) P.S. Here is the resulting version. 72.244.200.168 (talk) 22:26, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Bell County Inconsistencies
The listed income for Bell county varies from two other Wikipedia pages:

List of United States counties by per capita income

Bell County, Kentucky - Bottom of Demographics section — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doofenschmirtzable (talk • contribs) 03:41, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Date of Information?
Although the References at the bottom of the page mentions documents dated 2015, the tables in the article do not make this clear. Is the information in fact based on 2015 data? This should be stated in the titles of the tables. Mathyeti (talk) 01:54, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

Okanogan County
I just looked up Okanogan County in Washington and it said it has a per capita of $20,093 so it should be on the list. Why is not on the list? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.161.255.19 (talk) 22:52, 2 January 2018 (UTC)


 * It's confusing, and the text of this article doesn't explain it well. There are two measures of income: per capita income and per capital personal income. This list is of per capita personal income which is more inclusive than per capita income, including such things as social security, welfare, etc. I'll work on the text when I get time to try to explain the difference. Smallchief (talk) 01:44, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Also, Okanogan county is one of Washington's poorest counties, but its per capita personal income is well above those counties on this list. Smallchief (talk) 01:52, 2 February 2023 (UTC)