In 2023, about 12.8 percent of North Carolina's population lived below the poverty line. This accounts for persons or families whose collective income in the preceding 12 months was below the national poverty level of the United States. . The poverty rate of the United States can be accessed here.

Graph and download economic data for Percent of Population Below the Poverty Level (5-year estimate) in Mecklenburg County, NC (S1701ACS037119) from 2012 to 2023 about Mecklenburg County, NC; Charlotte; poverty; NC; percent; 5-year; population; and USA.

In North Carolina, the poverty rate is 13.2% and the uninsured rate is 10.4%. Percent of people below the federal poverty line and the share without health insurance. Source: ACS 5-year estimates (derived).

Graph and download economic data for Percent of Population Below the Poverty Level (5-year estimate) in Rutherford County, NC (S1701ACS037161) from 2012 to 2023 about Rutherford County, NC; NC; poverty; percent; 5-year; population; and USA.

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Percent of Population Below the Poverty Level (5-year estimate) in Wilson County, NC was 21.00% in January of 2023, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Percent of Population Below the Poverty Level (5-year estimate) in Wilson County, NC reached a record high of 24.00 in January of 2014 and a record low of 18.90 in January of 2021. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Percent of Population Below the Poverty Level (5-year estimate) in Wilson County, NC - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on October of 2025.

Spatial Dataset used to display Census Tracts for the year 2011-2015 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. This dataset includes attributes such as census tracts and block groups.The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation.

Graph and download economic data for Percent of Population Below the Poverty Level (5-year estimate) in Dare County, NC (S1701ACS037055) from 2012 to 2023 about Dare County, NC; NC; poverty; percent; 5-year; population; and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Percent of Population Below the Poverty Level (5-year estimate) in New Hanover County, NC (S1701ACS037129) from 2012 to 2023 about New Hanover County, NC; Wilmington; NC; poverty; percent; 5-year; population; and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Percent of Population Below the Poverty Level (5-year estimate) in Washington County, NC (S1701ACS037187) from 2012 to 2023 about Washington County, NC; NC; poverty; percent; 5-year; population; and USA.

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This study was undertaken to enable cross-community analysis of gang trends in all areas of the United States. It was also designed to provide a comparative analysis of social, economic, and demographic differences among non-metropolitan jurisdictions in which gangs were reported to have been persistent problems, those in which gangs had been more transitory, and those that reported no gang problems. Data were collected from four separate sources and then merged into a single dataset using the county Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) code as the attribute of common identification. The data sources included: (1) local police agency responses to three waves (1996, 1997, and 1998) of the National Youth Gang Survey (NYGS), (2) rural-urban classification and county-level measures of primary economic activity from the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the United States Department of Agriculture, (3) county-level economic and demographic data from the County and City Data Book, 1994, and from USA Counties, 1998, produced by the United States Department of Commerce, and (4) county-level data on access to interstate highways provided by Tom Ricketts and Randy Randolph of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Variables include the FIPS codes for state, county, county subdivision, and sub-county, population in the agency jurisdiction, type of jurisdiction, and whether the county was dependent on farming, mining, manufacturing, or government. Other variables categorizing counties include retirement destination, federal lands, commuting, persistent poverty, and transfer payments. The year gang problems began in that jurisdiction, number of youth groups, number of active gangs, number of active gang members, percent of gang members who migrated, and the number of gangs in 1996, 1997, and 1998 are also available. Rounding out the variables are unemployment rates, median household income, percent of persons in county below poverty level, percent of family households that were one-parent households, percent of housing units in the county that were vacant, had no telephone, or were renter-occupied, resident population of the county in 1990 and 1997, change in unemployment rates, land area of county, percent of persons in the county speaking Spanish at home, and whether an interstate highway intersected the county.

Graph and download economic data for Percent of Population Below the Poverty Level (5-year estimate) in Pender County, NC (S1701ACS037141) from 2012 to 2023 about Pender County, NC; Wilmington; NC; poverty; percent; 5-year; population; and USA.

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