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Scale Range: 1.5% – 88.7%
Definition: The share of people living in neighborhoods in which 20% or more of the population is in poverty.
Notes: Poverty determined as of 1999. Neighborhoods defined as census tracts. Excludes metro areas with less than 5,000 population of the specified racial/ethnic group.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Census, Summary File 3 accessed through the Neighborhood Change Database.