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What percentage of Americans living without relatives live below the poverty line?

24.1% of Americans living without relatives live below the poverty line — about 24 in every 100, or 2 in 10. That is the figure published by the American Community Survey for 2023.

Where this number comes from

Survey

American Community Survey

What it measured

American Community Survey 1-year estimate, published under the label “PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES AND PEOPLE WHOSE INCOME IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS IS BELOW THE POVERTY LEVEL → All people → Unrelated individuals 15 years and over”.

Population

Americans living without relatives

Year

2023

90% confidence interval

24% to 24.2%

Work of the U.S. federal government - public domain. See the source data

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