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Indicators of Montgomery County Progress: Poverty Trends

The document summarizes poverty trends in Montgomery County, Maryland, the state of Maryland, and the United States from 1989 to 2009. It finds that Montgomery County saw its highest poverty rate in two decades in 2009 at 6.7% of residents, though this is below the state rate of 9.2%. Between 2008 and 2009, the number of people in poverty in Montgomery County increased by 10,000 people or 19%. While Maryland has the third lowest poverty rate nationally, the state saw a 1% increase in its poverty rate between 2008 and 2009.

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Indicators of Montgomery County Progress: Poverty Trends

The document summarizes poverty trends in Montgomery County, Maryland, the state of Maryland, and the United States from 1989 to 2009. It finds that Montgomery County saw its highest poverty rate in two decades in 2009 at 6.7% of residents, though this is below the state rate of 9.2%. Between 2008 and 2009, the number of people in poverty in Montgomery County increased by 10,000 people or 19%. While Maryland has the third lowest poverty rate nationally, the state saw a 1% increase in its poverty rate between 2008 and 2009.

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trendsheet INDICATORS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY PROGRESS December 2010

poverty trends

MONTGOMERY COUNTY
NATION
 An estimated 6.7 percent of Montgomery County’s population, 64,607 residents, lived in  Approximately 14.3 percent of the nation’s population live in poverty.
poverty in 2009, marking the highest poverty rate in two decades.  The national poverty estimate increased by 12.7 percent from 2007 to 2009.
 Between 2008 and 2009, 10,000 more residents were living in poverty, a19-percent  The distribution of county poverty rates vary by region and place of residence:18.7
increase percent in the South, 14.6 percent in the West, 13 percent in the Midwest and 11.9
 The 2009 poverty rate in Montgomery County at 6.7 percent is well below Maryland’s percent in the Northeast.
9.2 percent, although Montgomery County’s gains account for 17 percent of the state
increase between 2007 and 2009.
 Montgomery County is among 453 counties that had a statistically significant increase in ANNUAL POVERTY RATE, 1989 - 2009
poverty between 2007 and 2009; one out of every seven U.S. Counties experienced an
increase in poverty. 16%
14%
12%
STATE 10%
 In 2009, more than 500,000 people in Maryland lived in poverty, an increase of 60,400 8%
people from previous year.
6%
 The state’s poverty rate increased by one percentage point from 8.2 percent in 2008 to
4%
9.2 in 2009.
2%
 Thirteen percent of Maryland’s poor live in Montgomery County.
 Maryland has the third lowest poverty rate of all states. Virginia at 10.6 percent ranks 0%
ninth. 1989 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

United States Maryland Montgomery County, MD


POVERTY TRENDS

rate 1989 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Montgomery County 4.3% 5.3% 5.1% 5.1% 5.6% 6.4% 6.5% 4.8% 4.8% 5.1% 5.8% 6.7%
Maryland 9.3% 8.0% 7.9% 7.7% 8.3% 8.8% 9.2% 8.3% 8.0% 8.3% 8.2% 9.2%
United States 12.8% 11.9% 11.3% 11.7% 12.1% 12.5% 12.7% 13.3% 13.0% 13.0% 13.2% 14.3%
person 1989 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Montgomery County 32,917 45,938 45,036 46,101 50,651 58,453 60,179 43,745 44,660 47,063 54,321 64,607
Maryland 441,906 417,207 416,005 408,668 445,430 480,998 506,265 453,850 436,978 455,601 448,788 509,141
United States 31,528,020 32,791,272 31,581,086 32,906,511 34,569,951 35,861,170 37,039,804 38,231,474 38,757,253 38,052,247 39,108,422 42,868,163

Montgomery County Planning Department, M-NCPPC


MontgomeryPlanning.org

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